Tell Congress: "Defund the police, invest in community!"

United States Congress

This moment demands that we make a major pivot in national priorities, rethink the role of the police, and center our health, safety, and well-being.

Over time, police budgets have steadily grown as local towns and cities experience budgetary shortfalls for critical resources to fund basic human needs like public schools, housing, and mental health. With outsized budgets, this positions police to fill gaps left by a lack of other services. This also brings police, who have a history of using deadly force against Black people, in closer proximity to our children, neighbors, and communities.

Add your name if you agree: We must divest money nationally from police budgets and reinvest it into health and social service programs that meet our needs and the needs of our communities.

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To: United States Congress
From: [Your Name]

Overpolicing, racial profiling, and police brutality make our communities more dangerous and our country less just. There is a better way.

But we have thought too small for too long, and we will not find that better way through half-measures. There is always a new task force, a new committee, a new report — yet the official violence by law enforcement continues. Always more promises; never less violence. This system is designed for the control of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color — all to protect the ruling class. Not to protect us, but to prop up privilege and power over us. The criminal justice system here is more criminal than just.

We recognize we cannot reform our way out of this. Therefore, we demand that we make a major pivot in national priorities, rethink the role of the police, and center our health, safety, and well-being.

We must divest money nationally from police budgets and reinvest it into health and social service programs that meet our needs and the needs of our communities.