Oct. 11 · Law Enforcement
From “Coup-Proofing: Inside the Pentagon’s MAGA-to-Military-to-ICE Pipeline”
Who you are contacting
Your city council member
What you are asking for
Ask your city council member for a vote to fund an unarmed crisis response team on the model of CAHOOTS in Eugene, Oregon, which answered about 24,000 calls in 2019 at about 2 percent of the local police budgets, along with a freeze on sworn-officer hiring while that team takes over the calls it can handle.
The call to action as published on Oct. 11
Who you’re contacting and how: Reach out to your city council member. Email, phone, FaxZero, a printed letter, or a visit to the council office during business hours all work. Use the method that has gotten you a reply from an office before, and if none has, try one you haven’t.
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What you’re asking for: a vote to fund an unarmed crisis response team on the model of CAHOOTS in Eugene, Oregon, which answered about 24,000 calls in 2019 at about 2 percent of the local police budgets, along with a freeze on sworn-officer hiring while that team takes over the calls it can handle. The administration built a second force because it could not trust the first one to do what it wanted. A city can do the same with a police department it cannot fix.
Let them know who you are, what you want, and why you care. Offices count identical messages once, so write it in your own words.
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