Is Syracuse, NY, activist's call for DEFUNDING the police related to George Soros' ICLEI?
We sure could use some feds to look into this city…
Background.
Syracuse, NY former mayor, Stephanie Miner, was a member of George Soros' local ICLEI organizations, Local Governments for Sustainability.
https://icleiusa.org/
https://www.iclei.org/
Also a few years back there was a peaceful small rally against sharia law downtown. Small opposition group across the street. Out of nowhere a couple of buses of violent ANTIFA thugs show up. Handful of police DID NOT CALL for backup even though it was a quiet sat afternoon. We would have had the sh*t beat out of us had it not been for the protection of local militia. News completely distorted what I saw first-hand - same old how great & peaceful muslims are.
As Syracuse activists demand to defund the police, expert says it could improve policing
July 14, 2020
The People’s Agenda for Policing in Syracuse is clear – they want to cut money to police.
The People's Agenda for Policing is comprised of over a dozen different community activist groups, and defunding the police is just one of their demands to the city hall. They have nine that they want to be addressed immediately, saying that their recommendations have been on the table for years without a proper response from the mayor.
"When you look at the disparities in funding, that’s a moral document. So, when you look at the divestment in youth programs, community services, economic development, you can begin to understand why we're ranked where we are in poverty and we don’t seem to be moving out of that situation,” says Twiggy Billue, president of the Syracuse chapter of the National Action Network and part of the People’s Agenda.
Mayor Ben Walsh is expected to address their demands on Thursday - and local activists won't take anything less than a commitment to action.
Law enforcement expert and former Rochester police chief Cedric Alexander says re-allocating the budget won't harm policing if done carefully - in fact, it'll improve it.
“Police are asked to do a lot. They are the go-to, you give them everything to do when we have not properly equipped them, we have not properly trained them, and if we did it’s at minimal,” says Alexander.
Without other options, Alexander says police are overburdened trying to handle a variety of problems, from homelessness to mental health issues.
"We’re going to take some funds and put it in another pot. So that we can hire - the city can hire – people that are far better trained, far better equipped, to engage some of these populations that over the years the police have had to engage,” he says,
Alexander says there would be more money available to improve communities so police aren't reacting to deep rooted problems.
"If we can put persons that are trained to work with populations in those areas, they can operate in a preventative measure and allow police time to give back other thigs and be able to patrol our streets and develop relationships."
For Alexander - any kind of reform needs to be about getting back to what policing should be about..
“The community is the police, and the police is the community. They're joint entities, they work together, they work hand in hand. You can't have safe communities without having community members that are involved in their own public safety. “
Alexander touched on the phrase "defunding" police, say it is important to know it simply means taking funds from one area of the budget and moving them to another. He says if done correctly, no personnel or resources would be lost.
https://cnycentral.com/news/local/as-syracuse-activists-demand-to-defund-the-police-expert-says-it-could-improve-policing-07-14-2020
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