3. COMMUNITY-CENTERED AND -CONTROLLED POLICING

WE BELIEVE the police must operate within the standards our community sets. We support:

1. Ensuring that all policing and public safety decisions are viewed through an equity lens.

2. Effective formal community control and oversight of the police.

3. Treating drug-related issues as a public health, rather than a law-enforcement, concern.

4. Establishing meaningful community-supported standards that prevent over-policing of certain neighborhoods that contribute to our arrest disparity rates.

5. Transitioning funding away from law enforcement and towards community development, early childhood education, and human services, thereby ensuring that police are performing policing duties while other professionals are hired to do social work, mental health and other services.

6. Allowing non-disruptive use of alcohol in parks and alternative solutions to problematic behavior.

7. Prohibiting the cooperation of any City agency, including the police, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

8. Eliminating police enforcement of school discipline policies and limiting their presence and authority within the schools.

9. Rejecting militarization of the police.

10. Ending the criminalization of poverty and homelessness.

11. Rejecting funding that increases random stops and road checks that increase police contacts and opportunities for increasing our disparity rates.

12. Decreases in forfeiture amounts for municipal tickets to decrease reliance of city services on this funding and any revenues generated from tickets should be dedicated to investing in the community.

13. Restorative justice programs instead of a punitive or punishment models.

14. Increasing efforts to emphasize de-escalation training and mental health training for all police officers.

15. Use of force policies that emphasize a duty to preserve life and use of proportional force.

16. Rejecting state and federal law enforcement grants to conduct the "War on Drugs."

17. Efforts to increase data collection on racial disparities and efforts to reduce those disparities.

18. The creation of an independent auditor of the Police Department as recommended in the 2017 OIR Group Report.