BREAKING: We banded with 75+ organizations from across the country to call on + to end 's approach to the budget which shrinks critical services while maintaining the NYPD's oversized budget: bit.ly/3XUN0Nx
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So as we move forward this year, we will be organizing to win a vision for our city that centers what our communities need.
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No matter how many false victory laps the mayor attempts to take, his record shows a different reality. New Yorkers know the real state of the city, and we know what we need for our communities to thrive.
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The reality is that in both his FY23 budget and proposed FY24 budget, the Mayor has continued to gut essential services like housing, mental health, early childhood education, and libraries while preserving a bloated police budget that does nothing to make New Yorkers safer.
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Communities, who have for decades been targeted, harassed, and abused by NYPD, need accountability -- an end to abusive practices, stronger police oversight, and real accountability for officers who brutalize and kill New Yorkers.
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Instead, doubled down on his commitment to sustain abusive policing tactics like the hyperaggressive enforcement of low-level offenses, expand police surveillance and continue to support notoriously violent units, like his rebranded anti-crime unit.
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Ahead of 's #StateOfTheCity address, check out why NYC communities think his proposed budget is dangerous for New Yorkers, and especially for Black, Latinx and other communities of color. #NYCNeedsABetterBudget
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BREAKING: We banded with 75+ organizations from across the country to call on @NYCSpeakerAdams + @NYCCouncil to end @NYCMayor's approach to the budget which shrinks critical services while maintaining the NYPD's oversized budget: bit.ly/3XUN0Nx
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BREAKING: We banded with 75+ organizations from across the country to call on @NYCSpeakerAdams + @NYCCouncil to end @NYCMayor's approach to the budget which shrinks critical services while maintaining the NYPD's oversized budget: bit.ly/3XUN0Nx
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NKD joins these organizations in opposing the Mayor's cuts to essential services. Read bit.ly/3XUN0Nx, then call your Council member and tell them to oppose these cuts!
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BREAKING: We banded with 75+ organizations from across the country to call on @NYCSpeakerAdams + @NYCCouncil to end @NYCMayor's approach to the budget which shrinks critical services while maintaining the NYPD's oversized budget: bit.ly/3XUN0Nx
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BREAKING: We banded with 75+ organizations from across the country to call on @NYCSpeakerAdams + @NYCCouncil to end @NYCMayor's approach to the budget which shrinks critical services while maintaining the NYPD's oversized budget: bit.ly/3XUN0Nx
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Mayor Adams's budget cuts represent a refusal to admit that criminalizing poverty, mental health challenges, and housing instability does not keep our city safe.
The safest communities are not the ones with the most police; they're the ones with the most resources.
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BREAKING: We banded with 75+ organizations from across the country to call on @NYCSpeakerAdams + @NYCCouncil to end @NYCMayor's approach to the budget which shrinks critical services while maintaining the NYPD's oversized budget: bit.ly/3XUN0Nx
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We need the Speaker and City Council to ensure that the FY24 Budget restores and protects critical services and programs that our communities rely on and that are essential for the full recovery of our city. And that's on #NYCNeedsABetterBudget.
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"We need you to cut the department’s bloated budget. Mayor Adams’ approach to our city’s budget will do more harm in criminalizing our communities rather than support a safe and just recovery.”
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"We need our leaders to prioritize immediate and sustainable investments in health, education, housing, community programs and other critical services, while also reducing the size and scope of the NYPD."
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“Black, Latinx and other communities of color, immigrants, homeless NYers, youth, LGBTQI NYers, and more from across the city are making it clear that we need our elected officials to stand on the side of communities."
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"Protecting the NYPD's bloated budget from financial and personnel cuts will not make our city safer and will only serve to increase criminalization of communities the Mayor is neglecting to serve and support."
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"The Mayor continues to sacrifice essential services like housing, mental health, early childhood education and libraries while preserving an over-bloated police budget."
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"Today, with a unified voice, New Yorkers across the city are calling for what we truly need to survive and thrive," Ixele Akinmowo-Simon, spokesperson + .
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HAPPENING NOW: Rally at City Hall in response to the City Council postponing (for the 2nd time) the oversight hearing on the NYPD's violent rapid response group, the SRG. This is unacceptable.
We're live-streaming the rally on our Instagram at . Tune in!
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We’re joining , , , and other community groups at City Hall this morning to demand that the City disband the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group, which has a long legacy of violence and abuse.
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Unacceptable that is postponing this hearing again! SRG is a hyper militarized unit that abuses and brutalizes NYers. It must be disbanded and NYC must invest in vital services and resources that NYers actually need, like quality long-term mental healthcare.
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NEWS: My god. $820 million. NYC taxpayers will pay *$820 million* in just overtime for NYPD this year. Could instead house all 14,000 homeless families in NYC. Then years of rent for 7,000 families out of work & at risk of eviction. With millions left over.
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Again, Mayor Adams makes an exception for NYPD while making major cuts to other agencies. This is unacceptable! Not only is NYPD not expected to meet its cost-cutting target, but it's also projected to double what's in the budget for overtime pay.
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CPR, our movement partners and supporters have a real, sustainable vision for a budget and a city that serves our communities. Together will be leading the charge to fight for that future.
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Mayor Adams must immediately change his approach to our city’s budget by prioritizing community investment, not policing.
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This is the path forward toward a safer and more thriving city for all New Yorkers.
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Communities across the city are clear on what we need in a FY24 budget: immediate and long-term sustainable investment in communities and critical services, and meaningful cuts to the bloated NYPD budget.
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It will further jeopardize the lives of New Yorkers if he continues to prioritize policing over adequately funding essential services and programs we depend on to survive and thrive.
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The mayor’s FY23 budget, including the November Plan released last month, and today’s FY24 preliminary budget are not addressing root causes of the challenges facing our city.
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Mayor Adams has consistently positioned the NYPD to serve as primary responders to a range of public health and safety issues that they are not qualified to address and that stem from long-standing under-investments in housing, health, and education.
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Protecting the NYPD's bloated budget from financial and personnel cuts will not make our city safer and will only serve to increase criminalization of communities the Mayor is neglecting to serve and support.
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Mayor Adams continues to sacrifice essential services while protecting and preserving an over-bloated police budget.
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Instead of protecting staffing/funding for critical agencies, the Mayor has cut early childhood education, libraries, CUNY, and other critical agencies like the Human Resource Administration, the Departments of Homeless Services, and Youth and Community Development, to name a few
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Mayor Adams' FY24 is bad for communities. Here's why... 🧵
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To learn more from NYC youth about safety solutions that they support and are effective—in and out of schools—follow & .
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‘NYC kids are not alright.’
The video of NYPD Ofc. Scalzo beating 14-year-old Kyonna Robinson shows how ’s reliance on police as a safety solution makes schools unsafe. NYC should listen to youth calling for evidence-based alternatives that work.
They know best.
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An NYPD officer was suspended after a video showed him repeatedly striking a young person on the head with his fist during a clash among several officers and at least a dozen young people near a Staten Island middle school on Tuesday. nyti.ms/3ifYtIm
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This thread right here👇🏽
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We are absolutely appalled by NYPD officer Scalzo's attack of 14 year-old youth Kyonna Robinson in Staten Island.
Our full response from Staten Island youth member Brielka Rodriguez: “As a young person attending school in Staten Island, I’m shocked and scared to see... /1Show this thread
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Read our full statement in response to the assault by NYPD Officer Scalzo of a 14 year-old Black youth in Staten Island:
#PoliceFreeSchools #CommunityNotCops #CareNotCuts🧵
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