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       CELDF: DEFUNDING VIOLENCE ORDINANCE Part 1
   DIR By: Admin
       Date: January 28, 2021, 8:46 am
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       _X. USER GUIDE
       This “model ordinance” offers municipal policy changes designed
       to implement police abolition, informed by #8toAbolition and the
       Movement for Black Lives Policy Platform1 and numerous
       abolitionist organizers who contributed to this work. This is a
       starting point for legal language, offered to support but by no
       means to replace or detract from organizing, protest, and people
       power. Laws have power only to the extent that they can cement
       the progress a movement has made.
       _1 Available at
  HTML https://www.8toabolition.com/
       and
  HTML https://m4bl.org/policy-platforms/.
       
       Further, we offer this model ordinance not as an introduction or
       overview of police abolition theory but instead as a tool to
       support abolitionist organizing. We encourage everyone who
       hasn’t yet done so to explore police and prison abolition theory
       in depth. Many generations of Black organizers have dedicated
       their lives to building this movement and sharing their
       insights; as with any effort towards collective liberation in a
       white supremacist society we should be centering and supporting
       the leadership of affected community.2
       _2 This means reading or listening and donating to abolitionist
       organizers, especially those from BIPOC, queer, disabled,
       immigrant, and poor communities who best understand the
       experiences and struggles of resisting the police state. For one
       (of many) excellent resources to learn more about abolition, the
       Abolition Collective has compiled an array of resources into a
       study guide, available at
  HTML https://abolitionjournal.org/studyguide/.
       Other organizations to explore, and give money to if you can,
       are Critical Resistance, Survived and Punished, Black and Pink,
       and others.
       Finally, this is a nuanced policy area and this template
       “ordinance,” as it is presented, must be customized for the
       needs and context of your community. Police abolition will not
       happen through one ordinance; law enforcement has cemented its
       power into the foundation of our society through federal, state,
       and local laws, as well as police union contracts and municipal
       budget and planning documents. Sometimes a city charter requires
       a police department. You should not submit this document in its
       entirety to your governing body, but instead borrow from it and
       adapt it to the strategic needs of your campaign. This document
       is not intended as legal advice and should not be taken as legal
       advice.
       Note: where you see [things in brackets], you must adjust the
       bracketed language by making choices that make the most logical
       sense given your location and campaign strategy. You should
       delete the footnotes before submitting, although you might want
       to keep a footnoted copy to reference the sources as part of
       your narrative and advocacy. You won’t want to use every single
       provision in here - some are contradictory or redundant. We have
       color coded the provisions to help you decide which ones you
       might want to include:
       _G. - Green Sections are generally smaller, more gradual
       changes.
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       _Y. - Yellow Sections are generally moderately significant
       changes.
       _R. - Red sections are generally big changes.
       _A. You can always advocate for a red (or yellow) provision, and
       offer a yellow (or green) provision as a compromise when you
       negotiate with power-holders. Your ordinance might include
       green, yellow, and red provisions all together. Keep in mind
       that you should pick what to include based on what you want to
       accomplish, not on color; for example including all the green
       sections without thinking critically about each one will create
       a self-contradicting ordinance and some protections/prohibitions
       might not in fact be relevant for your municipality.
       _B. - Blue sections should appear in your Ordinance no matter
       what (but you can still make edits if you see ways to improve
       the template language).
       _A. - Gray sections are Authors’ Notes from us to give you more
       context and justification for what each section/provision does.
       Delete these, along with any footnotes, from the final copy
       before you go public with it.
       _X. While some of these changes are more incremental, we have
       carefully and intentionally avoided including any “reformist
       reforms” (sometimes called “recuperative reforms”) in this
       Ordinance. We are only providing what we believe to be
       abolitionist reforms - changes that ultimately bring power back
       to the people rather than changes that ultimately stabilize the
       oppressive system. That distinction is important. Abolitionist
       reforms move us toward a world with less violence, particularly
       less violence at the hands of the state. In contrast,
       reformist/recuperative reforms recover the public legitimacy of
       violent state institutions and/or expand the power and scope of
       policing and prisons.3 Governments frequently propose reformist
       reforms in response to public unrest so as to depower the
       movement. The line between an abolitionist and recuperative
       reform is not always easy to draw. If you think we drew it
       wrong, please do let us know!
       _3 A fantastic visual explanation with examples from Critical
       Resistance about reformist and non-reformist
       reforms that we highly recommend everyone reads:
  HTML https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59ead8f9692ebee25b72f17f/t/5b65cd58758d46d34254f22c/15333
       98363539/CR_NoCops_reform_vs_abolition_CRside.pdf
       _A. *********Delete the above user guide before submitting this
       too!*********
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       _B. A DEFUNDING VIOLENCE [, REFUNDING COMMUNITY] ORDINANCE
       A Rights-Based Ordinance Revoking our Consent to Be Subjected to
       Racially and Socio-Economically Motivated Punishment as a False
       Solution to the Root Causes of Societal Harms[ and a Knowing
       Misuse of Resources].
       _A. Authors’ Note: Ordinance title options for consideration, or
       create your own:
       ● Defunding Violence Ordinance
       ● Democracy without Violence Ordinance
       ● A Defunding Violence and Reclaiming Community Ordinance
       ● Freedom and Safety by Defunding Violence Ordinance
       ● Harm Reduction Ordinance
       When deciding what to call your ordinance and when discussing it
       with others, remember that getting rid of police is, all by
       itself, a solution to systemic racism and violence. Refunding
       can be a persuasive talking point and a supplemental solution,
       but the first and foremost point of defunding is that less
       police equals safer communities, beyond just the remarkable
       benefits of freeing up resources to devote to public resources
       and services.
       _B. PREAMBLE
       _A. Authors’ Note: The preamble describes why you are passing
       this ordinance and what is wrong with the institution of police
       that should motivate your community to change how it tries to
       create public safety. This template preamble denounces “false
       solutions” and reformist reforms to police brutality (e.g.
       #8cantwait) to avoid the ordinance getting co-opted into
       something that stabilizes, rather than guards against, an
       oppressive status quo. We offer suggested language here to
       pre-emptively answer questions about and challenges to the
       Ordinance, and perhaps give organizers some talking points.
       However, you are the experts of your own community and
       experience! Adding statistics or anecdotes specific to your
       location will strengthen the preamble. Don’t hesitate to edit
       our suggestions more substantively for messaging that will work
       better in your community. None of the preamble is legally
       binding language when the law is enacted, but it is important
       framing to orient people to the need for and goals of the
       Ordinance.
       _B. Creation & Evolution of Police4: Policing and incarceration
       have not always existed. City and town governments created the
       first police forces to prevent Black people from fleeing
       enslavement.
       _4
       consortiumnews.com/2020/06/23/uprising-police-violence-racism-have-always-enforced-injustice/
       Page 3
       After slavery was purportedly abolished with the Thirteen
       Amendment, but actually legalized “as a punishment for crime,5”
       policing evolved to protect and maintain racial capitalism,
       controlling people’s movement and protecting societal divisions
       of property, labor, and resources. Local governments directed
       police forces to uphold racism and expand social control in
       steadily more insidious ways, such as forcing Black people to
       work for white employers, selectively criminalizing Black
       behavior to recreate slave labor through imprisonment, enforcing
       Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws, attacking union organizers,
       suppressing protests in the Civil Rights era and beyond,
       employing television and film media to propagandize the
       purported necessity of police, and selectively targeting and
       upholding laws that punish people for poverty and other vestiges
       of overt racism.
       _5 U.S. Const. Amen. XIII.
       _A. [Optional state-specific facts, i.e. that Pennsylvania
       developed the first state police in 1905 to suppress workers
       seeking to unionize].
       _B. Police were created and have further evolved to serve their
       fundamental purpose: helping the affluent few accrue and protect
       hoards of resources and wealth. State-sanctioned police violence
       disproportionately targets Black, indigenous, and other people
       of color and disabled, poor, and queer people in order to
       maintain the wealthy elite’s ability to exploit humans and the
       environment for profit. Police violence also prevents this
       hoarded wealth from being redistributed more equitably. Police
       prevent people from defending themselves against physical
       infrastructure that leeches resources from and/or injects toxins
       into their community, further cementing the genocidal origins
       and colonial legacy of property ownership.
       Police Brutality is Intentional and Systemic: Police are brutal.
       Not because the profession draws an occasional violent recruit,
       but because the profession allows, encourages and in fact
       demands its officers to be violent and then immunizes them from
       legal and social repercussions. Police academies program
       trainees to see violence as a legitimate defense to imagined
       threats and discuss de-escalation only performatively: recruits
       spend, on average, 110 hours on defense tactics and firearms
       training and only eight hours each on crisis intervention and
       de-escalation.6 Academies condition recruits to perceive
       Blackness, neuro-divergent behavior, disability, and poverty as
       safety threats to which brutality is a necessary response. Less
       than half of police
       murders stem from police responding to a “violent” crime.7
       Murders aside, police perpetrate an unknowable magnitude of
       widely accepted nonlethal violence by detaining people without
       cause, arresting people who are innocent, and assaulting people
       who pose no threat - all in the name of protecting and serving.
       Laws give police broad discretion, inviting officers to heed the
       interpersonal racism that their training drills into them.
       Beyond causing direct harm through the use and threat of
       violence, policing’s purpose to maintain law and order in a
       system built on exploitation allows the everyday violence
       inherent to our existence in an oppression-dependent society to
       continue. All policing is police brutality.
       _6
  HTML https://www.vox.com/2016/7/7/12118906/police-training-mediation
       
       _7 2017 Police Violence Report,
  HTML https://policeviolencereport.org/
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       _B. Police Disproportionately Arrest, Brutalize, and/or Murder
       Black and Indigenous People: Nationwide, Black people are 3
       times more likely to be killed by police than white people.8
       Black US Americans are imprisoned at five times the rate of
       white US Americans.9 Studies across the country show that Black
       drivers are significantly more likely to be stopped by police
       and up to 200% more likely, once stopped, to have their vehicles
       and persons searched by police despite Black drivers being
       statistically less likely to have contraband items.10
       _A. [perhaps include a state specific statistic, e.g.: In
       Vermont, where 1% of the population is Black, 9% of people
       incarcerated are Black. This staggeringly disproportionate
       representation begins with police racially profiling and
       harassing Black people and continues with racism in courts and
       jury pools].
       _B. Indigenous people are the most likely of any racial or
       ethnic group to be murdered by a police officer.11
       _8 You can look up your state here if you’d like more specific
       data:
  HTML https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/states
       
       _9
  HTML https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52877678
       
       _10
       www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2020/may/black-drivers-more-likely-to-be-stopped-by-police.html
       _11
  HTML https://www.nationofchange.org/2016/10/30/remember-talk-standing-rock/<br
       />
       Police Disproportionately Endanger Women, LGBTQ+ People, and
       People with Disabilities: Any available statistics for sexual
       abuse by police officers are “practically nonexistent” due to a
       multitude of factors including wide-spread lack of
       accountability, oversight, or consequences for police misconduct
       as well as the inherent power dynamics between police and
       civilians that discourage reporting and encourage cover-ups.12
       As a drastic underestimate, the Associated Press identified over
       1,000 police officers who lost their badge in a six year period
       due to sexual misconduct, which number fails to account for
       unreported or uninvestigated incidents and includes zero
       incidents from New York or California, where no state
       decertification process for sexual misconduct exists.13 About
       half of these victims are children and almost all are either
       LGBTQ+ or straight, cisgender females.14 Physical force, trained
       aggression, years of unprocessed trauma, and immunization from
       consequences cause police to commit gender-based and domestic
       violence off duty as well; over 40% of police officers
       nationwide anonymously admitted to abusing family members, a
       statistic replicated by other studies.15 Transgender and gender
       non-conforming people, particularly those who are Black and/or
       otherwise multiply marginalized, experience egregiously inflated
       rates of police harassment, violence, assault and subsequently
       increased frequencies and lengths of incarceration.16
       Approximately half of all US police murder victims are people
       who are mentally, physically, psychiatrically, cognitively,
       developmentally or otherwise disabled, D/deaf, neurodiverse, or
       chronically ill.17
       _12
  HTML https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/19/us/police-sexual-assaults-maryland-scope/index.html<br
       />
       _13
  HTML https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/01/police-sexual-assault-investigation.<br
       />
       _14
  HTML https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/19/us/police-sexual-assaults-maryland-scope/index.html<br
       />
       _15
  HTML https://money.yahoo.com/data-suggests-40-percent-cops-145601125.html<br
       />
       _16
  HTML https://www.thetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ntds_full.pdf<br
       />Police and Incarceration chapter
       _17
       rudermanfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/MediaStudy-PoliceDisability_final-final.pdf
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       _B. With emphasis on the acutely violent danger that police
       present to Black people, police brutality against people of any
       race, ability, gender and gender expression is widespread,
       egregious, and unacceptable.18
       _18
       washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/29/heres-why-we-dont-see-protests-when-police-unjustly-kill-white-people/
       Police Fill Prisons, Which Destabilizes Families and
       Communities: Police are harmful not only for their historic and
       ongoing role in protecting the ruling class’s rights to exploit
       and exclude everyone else and not only for the immediate bodily
       danger they pose to everyone, especially to people from
       marginalized communities and with criminalized identities. As a
       gateway into the prison industrial complex, police initiate a
       process that strips people of their humanity, damaging us
       physically and mentally. Carceral punishment in all forms is
       torture. Corporations embedded in this “solution” to violence
       profit from making us afraid of each other, costing taxpayers
       over 180 billion dollars a year and pressuring police to find or
       create “criminals” to justify maintaining this expensive
       institution.19
       _19
  HTML https://eji.org/news/mass-incarceration-costs-182-billion-annually/
       Police and Prisons do not Decrease Crime, but instead Divert
       Funding from Programs that Do: Increasing police funding and
       presence in an area does not decrease crime in that community.20
       Cities and towns with lower crime rates do share a common theme:
       well-funded public services. The way to decrease harmful
       activity in our community is to provide more resources that
       address the root problems of inequality such as structural
       racism, poverty, and environmental degradation - not to invade
       communities with hired guns whose job is to threaten and enact
       violence.
       _20
       www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/07/over-past-60-years-more-spending-police-hasnt-necessarily-meant-less-crime/
       Police Perform Social Services to Assert Their Usefulness: After
       governments cut social services to pay for an ever-expanding,
       ever-militarizing police force, police are then asked to perform
       these social services. Police are not trained to address harm,
       only to punish. Nevertheless police are sent to de-escalate, to
       outreach to vulnerable communities, to supervise highway repair,
       to mentor children, to do any number of performative chores
       where a license to kill is wholly unnecessary. Serving the
       community as unskilled, over-paid, violently-unstable social
       workers allows police to legitimize themselves, to claim they
       are needed to perform these crucial public services, and to
       build trust with a community they otherwise threaten despite the
       fact that their existence comes at the expense of the very
       social services they now attempt to perform.
       “Community Oriented Policing” Is a Dangerous False Solution:21
       Community policing, which includes tactics like “broken windows
       policing,” is a relatively new concept developed to promote the
       misleading idea that police are not harmful if they can build
       relationships with community members.22 Community Oriented
       policing focuses on improving officers’ reputation in the
       community without doing anything to mitigate the actual harm
       these officers perpetrate on the people in that community.
       _21
       www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/community-policing-exists-dangerous-200810154949045.html
       _22 See, e.g., the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law
       Enforcement Act, which established community policing federally
       and created the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented
       Policing Services office.
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       _B. Statistically, community policing improves only the
       communities’ perception of police and the job satisfaction of
       the officers but has no impact on crime rates or public
       safety.23 Federal grants from the Community Oriented Policing
       Services office come with strings attached requiring further
       militarization of local police forces and collaboration between
       local and state police and federal immigration authorities.
       Broken windows policing involves targeting low-level infractions
       for aggressive enforcement, prioritizing arrests for visible
       crimes to create the appearance of “order” and “cleanliness” in
       a community. This tactic benefits property owners and businesses
       at the expense of the individual people, usually poor and often
       Black, who are now arrested, fined, and harassed constantly for
       minor infractions and symptoms of poverty. “Community Policing”
       does not create a symbiotic bond between people and police but
       rather enables law enforcement to solidify their surveillance
       and control over people’s everyday lives.24
       _23 “Community Oriented Policing: What it Is - Why it Works -
       How to Get Started,” National Criminal Justice
       Reference Service, 1997
       www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/169113NCJRS.pdf
       _24 Alex Vitale, The End of Policing, 2017.
       Therefore, we the people of [Municipality], as the source of
       governing authority for [Municipality], assert our inherent and
       inalienable right of local community self-government for the
       protection and expansion of our Fourteenth Amendment Rights to
       live free from institutions that prejudice our Black and brown
       residents, our working-class and poor residents, our disabled
       residents, and our LGBTQIA+ residents. The police are just such
       an institution, and are detrimental to real public safety. We
       hereby limit the violence of policing in [Municipality] through
       the assertion of the following rights, in the following ways:
       SECTION 1: INHERENT RIGHTS THAT POLICE IMPEDE
       _A. Authors’ Note: This section lists the legal grounds that
       justify the binding provisions of the Ordinance. These rights
       are preliminary support for the argument that the Ordinance is
       valid and that your municipal officials must all abide by it.
       You should consider including all of these statements. Part of
       the reason for basing the Ordinance in rights, not just your
       local government’s power to protect health, safety, and welfare,
       is that state and federal governments can use their lawmaking
       power to make laws that contradict the laws of local
       governments, and courts generally say that the federal or state
       law trumps local law. Asserting local rights presents an
       additional defense against state ceiling preemption. Unlike the
       enforcement provisions in this template, none of the provisions
       in this section are contradictory. These rights belong to every
       person by virtue only of their existence. Police as individuals
       and an institution violate many or most of these rights
       especially those belonging to people who are Black, indigenous,
       brown, poor,  immigrant, transgender, gender-nonconforming,
       disabled, women and intersections of these identities.
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       _B. (a) Right to be free from State-funded Violence and
       Exploitation: All people in the jurisdiction of [Municipality]
       have an inherent, fundamental and unalienable right to be free
       from known threats to bodily and mental safety and integrity and
       mental, physical, emotional, and social well-being; including at
       a bare minimum a right to prevent their governments from
       creating, supporting, and legalizing statistically-proven
       threats to this safety and well-being. This includes a right to
       not have anyone’s safety and integrity jeopardized to create and
       protect wealth for another group.
       (b) Right to be free from Discrimination: All people in the
       jurisdiction of [Municipality] have an inherent, fundamental and
       unalienable right to be free from discrimination on the basis of
       actual or perceived race, ethnicity, color, sex, gender identity
       and expression, sexual orientation, class, spoken language,
       education, mental or physical ability, neurodiversity, religion,
       age, pregnancy, addiction and other illnesses, medical or
       psychiatric diagnosis, and immigration, family, military, or
       marital status. People have a right to a government free from
       systemic oppression with disproportionate impacts on
       marginalized groups and identities, hidden by identity-neutral
       laws and policies.
       (c) Right to Effective Problem Solving & Community Services: All
       people in the jurisdiction of [Municipality] have an inherent,
       fundamental and unalienable right to have their government offer
       solutions that are designed to reduce and mitigate harms, rather
       than designed to make profits for business associations while
       creating the false impression of efficacy, and a right to alter
       or abolish solutions currently in place that do more harm than
       good.
       (d) Right to Local Community Self-Government: The people of
       [Municipality] possess an inherent, fundamental and unalienable
       right to local self government both as individuals and as a
       collective. This right guarantees every community a system of
       government that is accountable to the people, that protects and
       secures their well-being, that puts human and environmental
       interests above property and profit interests, that can expand
       but not erode other fundamental rights of natural persons, and
       that neither state nor federal law can preempt because this
       right is rooted in the health, safety, and welfare protections
       that are governments’ fundamental purpose.
       (e) Right to Survive: All people in the jurisdiction of
       [Municipality] have an inherent and inalienable right to
       survive: to live and perform life-sustaining and nurturing
       activities and to exist as part of a community without fear of
       being shot or otherwise have their life threatened or taken by a
       government official. These protected survival activities
       include, but are not limited to: sleeping, walking, jogging,
       playing with toy guns, standing outside apartments and stores,
       shopping (including leaving a store without making a purchase),
       asking for help, driving a car, selling art, visiting family,
       relaxing, gathering in protest or celebration, and all other
       activities necessary for meaningful life and pursuit of
       happiness.25
       _25
       www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/us/black-lives-matter-police-violence-what-people-were-doing-trnd/index.html
       Page 8
       (f) Right to Free Movement: All people in the jurisdiction of
       [Municipality] have an inherent and inalienable right to move
       from one place to another, to travel freely between states and
       municipalities within this country without discrimination or
       profiling. Every person regardless of race, ethnicity, gender
       identity and expression, physical and mental ability,
       nationality, citizenship status, domicile, or country, state,
       city, or neighborhood of origin, has a right to experience and
       enjoy any other part of this country, without fear of being
       followed, harassed, threatened, or attacked by government
       officials for looking “out of place.”
       (g) Rights are Self-Executing: All rights secured by this law
       are self-executing, and further implementing legislation shall
       not be required for [Municipality] or any one or group of its
       residents to enforce the rights and prohibitions recognized by
       this law.
       SECTION 2: ENFORCEMENT
       _A. Authors’ Note: This section has numerous subsections, each
       with provisions limiting the role, funding, conduct, authority,
       and other aspects of police. You will need a thorough
       understanding of the police who operate in your area in order to
       choose the provisions that are relevant and that will be
       effective in meeting your goals. Some questions to ask yourself,
       while you think through these options, are: does your
       municipality have its own police force? Do you contract with
       other municipalities or the state police force and what services
       does that contract include? (Emergency response, patrols,
       dispatchers?) Do the schools in your town have Resource
       Officers, and from what police department? Is your community
       likely to support radical, broad transformation or do you need
       to start with incremental defunding, so you can bring more
       people on board and initiate positive feedback loops that allow
       for larger, systemic transformation down the line? What kinds of
       things do police usually do while on duty? How much
       interpersonal violence do you see in your community? Why do
       people call 911? Make sure your group centers the perspectives
       of people most affected by police violence, and when asking
       BIPOC, queer, disabled, poor, immigrant, or other community
       members to give advice make sure you listen to how they want a
       problem solved, not just what they identify as a problem, and
       find ways to appreciate and compensate their intellectual and
       emotional labor.
       _R. Subsection 2.1 Duties of Police Officers
       (a) Police Activity by Invitation Only: The [Municipality]
       Police Department’s exclusive purpose is to respond to civilian
       requests for assistance. It shall be unlawful for the police to
       engage in any activity in their official capacity except for
       responding to 911 calls [or other explicit verbal or written
       requests for law enforcement assistance].
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       _R.  When calling 911, the person requesting assistance may
       state that the situation is non-violent and ask officers to
       remove their firearms [or all weapons] before responding, and
       the responding officers must abide by this request.
       _A. Authors’ Note: The first alternative in brackets would allow
       people to verbally or in writing request police assistance in
       addition to requesting police by calling 911, for example by
       coming into a precinct or sending a letter or an email to ask
       for police assistance. This provision of the Ordinance also
       allows a caller to specify that police should not come armed.
       Think about situations where police are asked to find a lost kid
       or dog, to assist in traffic control when a car breaks down,
       etc. You don’t want jumpy gunmen entering an already stressful
       but completely nonviolent situation. Compile research ahead of
       time before proposing that police no longer perform any social
       services so that you can share alternative non-police response
       systems, such as CAHOOTS [[
  HTML https://whitebirdclinic.org/cahoots/<br
       />]]. Find data to dispel the myth that police showing up
       unarmed
       are putting themselves in danger.
       _Y. (a) Police Activity Prohibited in the Following Areas: The
       following police activity is unlawful except when actively
       responding to a 911 or other emergency request for assistance:
       [patrolling neighborhoods, businesses, parks, trails, and other
       recreation spaces; hosting or attending community events
       including youth summer camps, outreach or training programs;
       patrolling or holding office in schools; performing or
       accompanying health workers on wellness checks including visits
       to houseless communities; and conducting investigations of
       alleged crimes]. [Municipality] Police Department must [end or
       decline to renew] any and all contracts that arrange for police
       presence in schools, colleges, universities, parks, public
       transit, and public housing. [Municipality] Police Department
       must immediately close [all or any] special units[, including
       those] targeting protestors, sex workers, or “gang members,” or
       otherwise charged with community surveillance. [Municipality]
       Police Department must stop all collaboration with federal
       immigration authorities, Joint Terrorism Taskforces, and other
       surveillance structures.
       _A. Authors’ Note: This is an alternate provision to 2.1(a)
       above, and is slightly reduced in scope. Rather than a
       prohibition on all policing activities except 911 response, this
       provision offers a list of prohibited police activities but
       allows everything else. You should choose only one of these
       options. If you begin by proposing the first of these
       provisions, this second option may be offered as a compromise to
       the first. You can shorten/adjust this specific list of
       prohibited police activity if you find yourself unable to gain
       support for all of the prohibitions, or your group would rather
       not terminate all of the contracts or departments we list. For
       example, getting your municipality to force the local SVU unit
       to cease operations might be a tough sell, and might be a tense
       or triggering conversation for your community group especially
       if you all are new to this and new to working with each other.
       Adjust this to fit your needs. Expand the list if you can!
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