Posted on 06/05/2021 5:26:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
After months of calling for cuts in police budgets, activists in Albuquerque, New Mexico, were dismayed to hear about Mayor Tim Keller’s plan for the $56 million in Covid-19 relief on its way from Washington.
In April, Keller proposed earmarking more than 15 percent of the funds for the Albuquerque Police Department: $3 million to expand a gunshot detection system, $5 million to refurbish station houses, $1 million for new cars and $450,000 to recruit more officers. A Keller spokesman said this week that the money was part of a plan “to make our community safer and healthier for everyone.”
The activists found it galling that the city would give stimulus funds to a department that had been under federal oversight for years for chronic use of excessive force and still had one of the country’s highest rates of killings by police. They began preparing to fight the plan ahead of a mid-May meeting in which the City Council would vote on it.
“It’s highly offensive,” said Selinda Guerrero, an organizer for Building Power for Black New Mexico, part of a coalition campaigning to divert police funding to health care, housing and social service programs. “We now have municipal leadership deciding that more money and more resources need to go toward oppressive police tactics.”
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It has dawned all but the dumbest that police are necessary and valuable to have around.
How did we lose to these scum?
Because the media keep praising how fine the emperor’s new clothes are, and ignoring the rest of us while we keep saying He has no clothes.
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