Baltimore Search and Rescue Hindered by Defund the Police

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Way to go, democrats. Your New Klux Klan BLM shakedown crew resulted in marine search and rescue money being cut from the budget.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Way to go, democrats. Your New Klux Klan BLM shakedown crew resulted in marine search and rescue money being cut from the budget.

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I smell lawsuits coming.

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[Yarddog]

• Here's a glimps of Liberal insanity., as they think they can use funds that were allocated to Police, for
• all of this.
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  Defunding the Police: Brief Overview of History, Models and the Demands of the Movement​

  By Yoana Tchoukleva, Amalee Beattie and Josh Cottle
  Equal Justice Society
  June 18, 2020
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• Invest in social services and basic infrastructure critical to a thriving society:
  • Provide safe, accessible housing to everyone.[23]
  • Allocate city funding towards healthcare infrastructure, wellness resources, neighborhood-based trauma centers, non-coercive drug and alcohol treatment, and peer support networks.[24]
  • Invest in youth and after-school programs that promote learning, safety and community care.[25]
  • Invest in quality education, which includes ending exclusionary discipline, removing all police from schools, and investing instead in counselors, restorative justice facilitators, nurses, trauma specialists, and other support staff.
  • Make dignified employment available to everyone.
  • Invest in universal childcare and support for all families.[26]
  • Invest in models of collective ownership and production, such as worker coops, that directly benefit workers and counter economic inequity.
  • Invest in universal childcare and support for all families.
  • Provide access to healthy food, clean water and air, recreational activities for kids and adults.
  • Build a robust and ecologically-sound public transportation system.
• Invest in police-free models for preventing and addressing incidents of harm
  • Preventing harm:
    • Invest in community outreach workers who work to address the needs of vulnerable community members by connecting them with job opportunities, mental health services, housing, etc.
    • Build a restorative justice (“RJ) infrastructure, made up of RJ centers, community organizations and community spaces where people can seek assistance when in need or experiencing conflict.
  • Addressing harm:
    • Develop a Community Hotline that residents can call to receive help in emergencies. This could be a single hotline or separate hotlines depending on the issue involved (e.g., the hotline for mental health crisis could be different than the hotline for escalating violent conflict).
    • Invest in teams of trained community crisis workers who can respond to calls coming into the hotline(s). The MH First program in Sacramento is an excellent example of a mental health response framework, as is the CAHOOTS program in Eugene. The Violence Interrupters program in Chicago is an example of a program that provides critical intervention and ongoing support in situations of violent conflict.[27]
    • Make police officers, to the extent that they continue to exist as such, the last line of response, not the first line of response.