If they don't like the way their police departments operate, well they have the power.īut don't listen to me on this. Most of those big cities are like Phoenix – controlled by Democrats. Nor is there a big city police department that has been spared a federal investigation sometime in the last 25 years. There isn’t a major police department in America that isn't up to its eyeballs with social-justice convulsions and recriminations. They’ve shot a lot of people in recent years and the Justice Department is investigating them. Police may be a greater threat to people in those neighborhoods than the criminals who prey upon them.īesides, Phoenix Police have a history.
Name a big city with a police department that doesn't have problemsīut Poder could be right. You make it safe for them to walk outdoors, to do business, to feel secure in their homes. You stop the bad guys from killing and assaulting them. perspective, that’s how you serve the people in what Poder calls “the most under-resourced” communities: Prioritize arrests with an emphasis on dangerous fugitives.įrom Phoenix P.D. Target “prohibited possessors,” that courts say cannot carry firearms. Raise their visibility in crime-laden hotspots.Īddress more aggressively all types of gun violence. Reduce the number of violent and property crimes.Įmploy more performance metrics in addressing crime. This latest dustup began when Phoenix Police took a look at the violent crime statistics from 2017 to 2022 – murder up 39%, aggravated assault up 14% – and decided they need to more actively confront crime where it is most rampant. Phoenix Police propose to target violent crimes, gun violence With saved resources, we can flood high-crime zones with social workers, who come at half the cost of cops. Their policy position can be easily accommodated, concentrating expensive police resources on parts of the city that actually want police presence and sparing the expense of patrolling places where crime is highest. Poder is the high-stepping chorus line of the defund-the-police movement. Let’s actually ask those “Black and brown people” Poder claims to represent whether they want a Phoenix Police crackdown on crime or a Poder In Action crackdown on police.īecause if Poder truly represents the people, then the people want no police department at all. Instead of taking cops and activists' word, let's have a vote Let’s not “devastate” our neighborhoods with more police officers. “And the communities that have been the most under-resourced, the communities with the most Black and brown people, are the communities who are going to be devastated by this plan." "A crime reduction plan that doesn’t prioritize meeting people’s needs isn’t about community safety, it’s about criminalizing people,” said Poder in a written statement.
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