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https://docs.google.com/document/d/...voC7Jnd2NZz8ZLSP434KmTjSqSqz1q6EHY-bG9JEThe creators of this document are community members who are committed to imagining what Flagstaff will look like without policing. In an effort to address and abolish white supremacy in our community, we are seeking to begin serious conversations around defunding the Flagstaff Police Department. These demands remain a framework for imagining a Flagstaff without state-sanctioned violence toward our Indigenous, Black, and Brown neighbors; they are a way to sustain dialogue in our community around abolishing policing.
Before reading: Below you will find clear and organized talking points below that were directly adapted from 8toabolition.com and the #8toAbolition Campaign. These eight abolitionist demands have been adapted and contextualized for our community, with details attached to allow activists throughout Flagstaff to clearly demand that our City Council defunds the Flagstaff Police Department. These demands were not created by the owners of the Black Lives Matter Flagstaff Solidarity Action Group.
Please use this as a framework to write emails and scripted phone calls to the following elected officials: council
flagstaffaz.gov.
To submit a comment to be read at the public hearing on June 16th email publiccomment
flagstaffaz.gov
Defund Flagstaff PD
We demand that Flagstaff City Council immediately retract all funding to be provided to Flagstaff Police Department.
We demand that Flagstaff City Council defunds the Flagstaff Police Department and uses the additional $24.7 million to demilitarize Flagstaff PD, provide additional funds to Flagstaff Unified School District to implement a district-wide restorative justice framework[1], provide and invest in community self-governance, provide safe housing for ALL Flagstaff residents, and invest in community-wide initiatives for free and accessible mental health services.
We demand that Flagstaff City Council reject any further proposed expansion to the Flagstaff Police Department’s budget or expenditures.
We demand that Flagstaff City Council begins by reducing Flagstaff Police Department’s budget in the 2020-2021 fiscal year beginning with a 50% reduction of funds. We demand the City Council of Flagstaff to pass a yearly budget reduction that will decrease the Flagstaff Police Department’s funding completely by the year 2024.
Demilitarize Flagstaff PD and Our Community
We demand that Flagstaff City Council immediately disarms all law enforcement in the city of Flagstaff, including the Flagstaff Police Department, private security, and school resource officers in the Flagstaff Unified School District.
We demand that Flagstaff City Council immediately retracts all funding for munitions or weaponry for the Flagstaff Police Department. We demand that Flagstaff City Council removes all currently supplied munitions and weapons from the Flagstaff Police Department.
We demand that the Flagstaff City Council stops accepting federal funding or assistance for the militarization of the Flagstaff Police Department.
We demand that the Flagstaff City Council immediately repeal all laws that allow, hide, or excuse any use of force or misconduct by the Flagstaff Police Department.
End Coconino County Sheriff's Office Collaboration with Immigration and Custom Enforcement
We demand that Sheriff Jim Driscoll stops accepting unconstitutional ICE Detainers from Immigration Custom Enforcement.
We demand that the Coconino County Sheriff's Office stops cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Remove Police from Flagstaff Unified School District, #CounselorsNotCops.
We demand that the City of Flagstaff immediately demands a removal of all police from Flagstaff Unified School District schools.
We demand that the City of Flagstaff dissolves its relationship and collaboration with Northern Arizona University’s campus police.
We demand that the Flagstaff City Council demands an end to Flagstaff Unified School District’s Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) disciplinary model in favor of initiating a district-wide restorative justice framework. We demand that the Flagstaff City Council provides funding to the Flagstaff Unified School District to begin to plan for and later implement a district-wide restorative justice framework.
Free People from Jails and Prisons
We demand that the Flagstaff Police Department permanently closes all local jails.
We demand that the Flagstaff Police Department immediately frees all people currently in local detention, beginning with our Indigenous and undocumented community members.
We demand that the Flagstaff Police Department immediately halts the possibility of arrests in Flagstaff, Arizona.
We demand that the Flagstaff Police Department ends pretrial detention and immediately releases all detainees who are awaiting trial or are being held on parole violations.
We demand that the City of Flagstaff makes all communication (i.e. phone calls) from the Coconino County Detention Facility free and unlimited for all detainees.
Repeal Laws That Criminalize Survival
We demand that the Flagstaff City Council immediately repeals Flagstaff City Ordinance 6-01-001-0022 to allow the legalization of public camping for our homeless community members.
We demand that the Flagstaff City Council immediately allocates $1 million in additional funding to be provided to Flagstaff Shelter Services.
We demand that Flagstaff City Council immediately repeals all laws and local ordinances that criminalize the occupation of public spaces, especially in reference to our homeless community members.
We demand that the City of Flagstaff and the Flagstaff Police Department absolve all fines and fees associated with the criminal legal process.
Invest In Community Self-Governance
We demand that the City of Flagstaff and the Flagstaff Police Department increase the frequency at which they meet and communicate with the Citizens Liaison Committee.
We demand that the Flagstaff City Council holds an online open forum during which Flagstaff community members can openly voice their concern over police brutality and policing in the city of Flagstaff. Flagstaff Police Department and Flagstaff City Council must be in attendance and unpermitted to speak.
We demand that the Flagstaff City Council establish four neighborhood councils as representative bodies within municipal decision making in addition to the Citizens Liaison Committee.
We demand that the Flagstaff City Council launch an immediate assessment of community needs to provide data for investing in community-based resources.
We demand that the Flagstaff City Council invest additional funding from the removal of the Flagstaff Police Department into community-based public safety approaches that are non-violent and non-carceral.
Provide Safe Housing for Everyone
We demand that the Flagstaff City Council cancels rent and all mortgages in Flagstaff, Arizona without burden of repayment throughout the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We demand that Flagstaff City Council repurposes all empty buildings, houses, apartments, and hotels to our homeless community. Such buildings should be immediately resigned to the control of Flagstaff Shelter Services.
We demand that Flagstaff Shelter Services ends its functioning relationship with Flagstaff Police Department and begins to address issues of racism and discrimination in their organization.
We demand that the Flagstaff City Council provides unequivocal financial support to all refugees and undocumented persons in our municipality.
We demand that the Flagstaff City Council immediately establishes permanent and adequate housing for all displaced or homeless Indigenous peoples in Flagstaff, Arizona. We demand that this housing project is controlled and planned by Indigenous Liaison Rose Toehe.
Invest In Care Not Cops
We demand that the Flagstaff City Council immediately allocates funding from the Flagstaff Police Department’s budget to establish free and accessible healthcare facilities.
We demand that the Flagstaff City Council immediately establishes two detoxing facilities throughout the City of Flagstaff to provide a non-carceral solution to public intoxication for all Flagstaff residents.
We demand that Flagstaff City Council allocates funding from the Flagstaff Police Department to provide additional funding to Flagstaff Unified School District to hire additional counselors at every public school.
