1. Department of Community Response, Fire and Police Presentations on Operational Program, Planning and Deployment of Strategic Resources and Budget [Oral Report] File ID: 2025-00548
The Sacramento Poor People’s Campaign, in conjunction with the Southeast Village Neighborhood Association, is urging the City Council to ensure transparency regarding the costs incurred from the approved unlimited overtime for police and other departments addressing homeless encampments amid a budget shortfall. They emphasize the necessity for accountability in resource deployment and strongly oppose providing unchecked funding that may lead to the criminalization and dehumanization of unhoused community members.
Thank you for your consideration and attention.
Faye Wilson Kennedy
fayek@springmail.com
In 2023 the City Council approved unlimited overtime to the Police, Code Enforcement and Department of Community Response to address homeless encampments. As the City Council moves to address the budget shortfall, these departments need to be fully transparent about how much this cost the city's taxpayers and the City Council needs to hold them accountable in the deployment of these strategic resources as well as the results in addressing the homeless crisis. As a member of the board of directors for the Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness, I urge the City Council in its budget deliberations to oppose writing a blank check to these departments to continue to criminalize our unhoused and neighbors.
i am reading a very interesting book about police and safety: Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence by Samantha J Simon
https://nyupress.org/9781479813278/before-the-badge/
it would be a really good idea for sacramento leadership to read it, or at the very least watch the youtube interviews of the author. the chief of police, lieutenants, and policy academy staff should definitely read it. council's approval of the police department's budget should be contingent on such a commitment by staff.
it absolutely confirms my long-term recommendation that the police academy should include a segment on practicing nonviolent action. ALL police should understand how to be authoritative without lowering themselves to use force to compel compliance.
the idea that niceness is weakness is not just part of prison culture; it's part of cop culture.
Mark Rodriguez, activist
at March 15, 2025 at 10:19am PDT
Please do not go to Sun Spa, located at 6804 Fruitridge Rd #A
Sacramento, CA, 95820, They will claim that they are too busy for you.
The Sacramento Poor People’s Campaign, in conjunction with the Southeast Village Neighborhood Association, is urging the City Council to ensure transparency regarding the costs incurred from the approved unlimited overtime for police and other departments addressing homeless encampments amid a budget shortfall. They emphasize the necessity for accountability in resource deployment and strongly oppose providing unchecked funding that may lead to the criminalization and dehumanization of unhoused community members.
Thank you for your consideration and attention.
Faye Wilson Kennedy
fayek@springmail.com
In 2023 the City Council approved unlimited overtime to the Police, Code Enforcement and Department of Community Response to address homeless encampments. As the City Council moves to address the budget shortfall, these departments need to be fully transparent about how much this cost the city's taxpayers and the City Council needs to hold them accountable in the deployment of these strategic resources as well as the results in addressing the homeless crisis. As a member of the board of directors for the Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness, I urge the City Council in its budget deliberations to oppose writing a blank check to these departments to continue to criminalize our unhoused and neighbors.
i am reading a very interesting book about police and safety: Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence by Samantha J Simon
https://nyupress.org/9781479813278/before-the-badge/
it would be a really good idea for sacramento leadership to read it, or at the very least watch the youtube interviews of the author. the chief of police, lieutenants, and policy academy staff should definitely read it. council's approval of the police department's budget should be contingent on such a commitment by staff.
it absolutely confirms my long-term recommendation that the police academy should include a segment on practicing nonviolent action. ALL police should understand how to be authoritative without lowering themselves to use force to compel compliance.
the idea that niceness is weakness is not just part of prison culture; it's part of cop culture.
Please do not go to Sun Spa, located at 6804 Fruitridge Rd #A
Sacramento, CA, 95820, They will claim that they are too busy for you.