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Ocelot II

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2. It's still too vague. There's no plan.
Tue Sep 7, 2021, 09:32 PM
Sep 2021

I'm all in favor of a public safety agency - or whatever you want to call it - that includes police officers (who don't abuse or kill black people as a matter of routine), plus social workers and psychologists who are trained to deal with incidents where people with mental illness or substance abuse problems are causing a disturbance or a danger to themselves or others. The cops too often just arrest, tase or shoot those people because they don't know what else to do about them. But before I can vote for a major change I need to know more about how that agency will be managed, what it will consist of, who will be in charge of it, how funds will be allocated to its branches, etc. This ballot doesn't do that, so I'll be voting against it, with the hope for a more concrete proposal in the future.

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