Bring Our Neighbors Home Coalition

More Colorado schools stock overdose reversal meds, but others worry about stigma Though more districts have signed on since last year, only about a third of Colorado districts had enrolled in the state’s giveaway program at the start of this school year.

2/3rds of Colorado schools are in denial and think they can just-say-no their way through fentanyl www.denverpost.com/2023/10/06/n...

A Denver Budget for Real Public Safety: Increased funding for the STAR Program Fund Denver Health at the requested level Rental assistance & eviction defense Services for encampments Cancel medical debt Extend the Denver Basic Income Project bit.ly/DenverBudgetPriorities

🙏Thank you community! City Council has voted, & everything that we were pushing to have included in the 2024 budget will be sent in council's recommendation letter to Mayor Johnston. 🎉

He must submit his revised budget by Oct 16th, before the Oct 23rd public hearing. Don't let the pressure up!

Durham Residents Prepare for "Stop Cop City" Weekend of Action - INDY Week At an event at Durham's Main Library, organizers encouraged attendees to travel to Atlanta in November as part of an upcoming mass action to block the planned police training facility.

“The movement for defending life on earth is always a movement against the police.
If you’re fighting to defend a forest, if you’re fighting to defend your home against eviction, your land against a pipeline, you’re always fighting against the police.”

indyweek.com/news/durham/...

Tell Mayor Johnston & Denver City Council that Denver has much better things to invest in than already-bloated systems that don't keep us safe and actively harm our communities. #copolitics

💵 Fund stability. Fund community. Fund health. Fund REAL public safety.

🧰🛠 bit.ly/DenverBudgetPriorities

Action Alert Tell city council & Mayor Johnston: Invest in Community, not more police. Bloated police budgets defund our communities. Let's fund supportive programs and create real public safety!

🚨ACTION ALERT!🚨

Tell City Council & Mayor Johnston to take the $8.2M earmarked for more police & correctional beds & use that money to fund things that strengthen our communities & make them safer!

🧰 Our toolkit makes it easy!🛠

bit.ly/DenverBudgetPriorities

Action Alert Tell city council & Mayor Johnston: Invest in Community, not more police. Bloated police budgets defund our communities. Let's fund supportive programs and create real public safety!

🚨ACTION ALERT!🚨

Tell City Council & Mayor Johnston to take the $8.2M earmarked for more police & correctional beds & use that money to fund things that strengthen our communities & make them safer!

🧰 Our toolkit makes it easy!🛠

bit.ly/DenverBudgetPriorities

A Denver Budget for Real Public Safety: Increased funding for the STAR Program Fund Denver Health at the requested level Rental assistance & eviction defense Services for encampments Cancel medical debt Extend the Denver Basic Income Project bit.ly/DenverBudgetPriorities

While 💵more money for police💵 won't make Denver a safer city, programs that stabilize and support people do reduce crime, often significantly!

What if Denver's 2024 budget funded safety-promoting community programs instead? 🤔

Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/DenverBudgetPriorities

Analysis | Over the past 60 years, more spending on police hasn’t necessarily meant less crime In fact, there's no correlation between change in crime rates and spending on state and local police.

A comprehensive study of police spending and crime rates in America over the past 60 years found no correlation:

Spending more on policing does not lower the crime rate and spending less on policing does not increase it.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Invest in community not more police. Candidate Mike Johnston said he'd budget $3M for 200 additional "clinicians, EMTs and police". Mayor Mike Johnston proposes budgeting $8.2M for 167 additional cops + 90 extra correctional beds. bit.ly/DenverBudgetPriorities

🎙 ***tap tap*** Is this thing on?

It's budget season in Denver!

Did you know that Denver already spends ✨37% of the city budget✨ on the Department of Public Safety??

Bloated police budgets defund our communities, and throwing more money at policing doesn't make us any safer.

I plead with the officer who is driving to turn back and let me go home.

"If you didn't want this to happen, you shouldn't have called a crisis hotline. You did this to yourself. This is your fault", he said as he looked at me in his rear-view mirror. 23/

A background of a yellow and white grid. The text on the graphic reads: Let This Radicalize You Cohort with Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba. For new organizers and activists. Oct 17 - Dec 5, 2023, Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm ET. Apply by September 22, 2023. , There is an image of the cover of Let This Radicalize You, a book by Kelly and Mariame. The cover is bright orange and yellow with dark blue silhouettes of 4 people from the waist up; the people have their arms raised overhead and their hands are linked.

Are you a new activist/organizer interested in building your skills and knowledge? Apply to be part of this cohort with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social with a couple workshops facilitated by my comrade Adaku Utah! 💜

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Forced Labor Continues in Colorado, Years After Vote to End Prison Slavery Coloradans voted in 2018 to amend their state constitution to ban forced labor in prison. Years later, incarcerated people are still being punished for refusing work assignments.

On paper, Colorado did something big in 2018, becoming the 1st state to vote to abolish slavery. But in reality, CO prisoners are still being forced to work, under threat of punishment.

Important new story from @bolts.bsky.social:

boltsmag.org/colorado-pri...

Public Libraries Can Play a Role in Gun Violence Prevention Libraries have always sought to build stronger, more resilient communities. These days, they’re also furthering public safety.

“Studies have shown that communities with greater resource accessibility tend to have lower rates of gun violence.” @prisonculture.bsky.social

www.thetrace.org/2023/09/libr...

Mississippi Courts Won’t Say How They Provide Lawyers for Poor Clients Six years ago, the Mississippi Supreme Court told judges around the state to file plans showing how they meet their obligations to poor defendants. This summer, amid increased scrutiny of public defen...

Mississippi Courts Won’t Say How They Provide Lawyers for Poor Clients

6 years ago, the MS Supreme Court told judges around the state to file plans showing how they meet their obligations to poor defendants. This summer, amid increased scrutiny, the first one was filed.

Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data | Reuters A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in co...

"Research show[s] that U.S. police spend much of their time conducting racially biased stops & searches of minority drivers, often w/o reasonable suspicion, rather than “fighting crime.”..The NYT reviewed national dispatch data & found that just 4% of officers’ time is devoted to violent crime."

Amazing example of local journalism producing state-level changes.

As a result of Josh’s investigation into overpriced phone calls for ppl who are locked up in one county’s jail, there are now bills seeking to make all calls free STATE-wide in PA.

Sandra Bland Was Right: An NBC 5 Investigation In the wake of continuing questions of racial-profiling after Tyre Nichols’ death in Memphis, Illinois’ official data shows that several suburban Chicago police departments stopped minority driver...

Yesterday marks eight years since Sandra Bland, who lived in Naperville, Il was found dead in a Texas jail cell, two days after a police officer stopped her for alleged failure to signal. https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/sandra-bland-was-right-an-nbc-5-investigation/3064953/?amp=1