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Bring Our Neighbors Home Coalition
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We are building a coalition dedicated to ending mass incarceration, police violence, and cash bail in Colorado. bringourneighborshome.org
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bonh.bsky.social
🚨ACTION ALERT!🚨

Tell City Council & Mayor Johnston to take the $8.2M earmarked for more police & correctional beds & use that money to fund things that strengthen our communities & make them safer!

🧰 Our toolkit makes it easy!🛠

bit.ly/DenverBudgetPriorities
Action Alert Tell city council & Mayor Johnston: Invest in Community, not more police. Bloated police budgets defund our communities. Let's fund supportive programs and create real public safety!
October 4, 2023 at 1:20 AM
bonh.bsky.social
🚨ACTION ALERT!🚨

Tell City Council & Mayor Johnston to take the $8.2M earmarked for more police & correctional beds & use that money to fund things that strengthen our communities & make them safer!

🧰 Our toolkit makes it easy!🛠

bit.ly/DenverBudgetPriorities
Action Alert Tell city council & Mayor Johnston: Invest in Community, not more police. Bloated police budgets defund our communities. Let's fund supportive programs and create real public safety!
October 4, 2023 at 1:20 AM
bonh.bsky.social
While 💵more money for police💵 won't make Denver a safer city, programs that stabilize and support people do reduce crime, often significantly!

What if Denver's 2024 budget funded safety-promoting community programs instead? 🤔

Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/DenverBudgetPriorities
A Denver Budget for Real Public Safety: Increased funding for the STAR Program Fund Denver Health at the requested level Rental assistance & eviction defense Services for encampments Cancel medical debt Extend the Denver Basic Income Project bit.ly/DenverBudgetPriorities
October 4, 2023 at 1:17 AM
bonh.bsky.social
A comprehensive study of police spending and crime rates in America over the past 60 years found no correlation:

Spending more on policing does not lower the crime rate and spending less on policing does not increase it.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Analysis | Over the past 60 years, more spending on police hasn’t necessarily meant less crime
In fact, there's no correlation between change in crime rates and spending on state and local police.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 4, 2023 at 1:16 AM
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moxiest.art
I plead with the officer who is driving to turn back and let me go home.

"If you didn't want this to happen, you shouldn't have called a crisis hotline. You did this to yourself. This is your fault", he said as he looked at me in his rear-view mirror. 23/
September 30, 2023 at 4:57 PM