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education, libraries, homelessness services, mental health, affordable housing, <br />public health, public transit, immigrant services, and programs for low income <br />residents. Reimagine how we respond to emergency calls. Send Social Workers <br />and case managers to calls regarding mental health and homelessness (and stop <br />criminalizing homelessness). Send Social Workers and workers better trained in <br />de-escalation to domestic calls. Send detectives, victim support advocates, and <br />case workers when crimes are reported after the fact. Demilitarize the police. <br />These are just some obvious possibilities - rethink every type of call and every <br />line item being spent on police now, and determine if it can be better handled in <br />a different way. This should lead to a massive divestment of police in favor of <br />actual public safety and community investment. <br /> <br />Approve item 85A. Create an oversight committee including citizen involvement. <br />The committee should have investigative powers and real teeth to hold police <br />accountable. The committee should be well positioned to suggest alternative <br />spending options. Fund the committee. Engage the community. <br /> <br />Address the corrupt relationship between the Council and the police union. The <br />police union should not be able to use the distraction of a pandemic to force a <br />special election and oust a Councilmember. If you were to support rethinking <br />police spending, would your position on the Council be at risk too? That is <br />corruption. Seize this moment to get the Council out from under the thumb of <br />the police union. <br /> <br />Thank you, <br />Janine Stallings <br />2116 S Sycamore St, Santa Ana <br /> <br />2 <br />