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Pueblo, CO
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Who We Are
“The safest communities aren’t the most policed; they have the most resources.” -Jillian Johnson The organization formed to Defund the Pueblo PD started from a group of concerned citizens who recognize the dangers of over-policing the communities we love in Pueblo, Colorado. We envision a future where community comes before community policing. Our collective goal is to mimic the success of communities that thrive with little police interaction or interruption to its community members’ daily lives.
We demand the city council of Pueblo, Colorado, reallocate the $31.7M funding from the Police budget into social programs better suited to handle these complex issues. When we say defund, we mean reallocate, reassign and reinvest. Reallocate funding to social programs designed specifically to help people with through crises; Reassign duties that overwhelm the police to those who are educated and equipped to deal with them; Reinvest in the people of Pueblo and their futures by using their tax money to reinvigorate their resources.
Imagine that rather than continuing a system that has negatively affected our community’s ability to thrive, we instead recognize the over-reliance on Pueblo PD to deal with all our nations’ most complex social issues aside from actual crime to a growing mental health crisis, drug addiction, homelessness and more that face our communities.
We actively reject calls for reform i.e. police accountability and changes to the policing system. This is a system that evaluates itself for wrongdoing and typically finds no fault. We reject negotiations or discussions for improved training or other previously pushed solutions like police-community dialogue sessions, implicit bias training, community policing or body cameras. They have not worked; they prioritize a failed system. Instead, we call for the defunding—reallocating, reassigning and reinvesting—of police department funds toward other options for the communities across Pueblo, Colorado.
