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Cities across the country are moving to divest from police, the NBA is striking, and @CityOfDallas @DallasCityMgr are choosing violence. WE DEMAND $200 million for programs needed to help residents survive decades of neglect and harm, and WE DEMAND that $ from the police budget.
Our City, Our Future @ocofdallas has mapped a clear plan for the $200 million. Here's a breakdown of our Budget Demands and reallocations for the health of #Dallas. You can read in full here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1so_iXqC1YcknYlYalOW4Rnw4IvUDsi0I/view
First: an Office of Integrated Public Safety gets $30,400,000.
- Violence Interruptors (Cure Violence Program)
$200,000 to train neighborhood orgs and volunteers to intervene and deescalate
- Right Care Program expansion
$2 mil to extend to youth (doubles a planned increase)
- Violence Interruptors (Cure Violence Program)
$200,000 to train neighborhood orgs and volunteers to intervene and deescalate
- Right Care Program expansion
$2 mil to extend to youth (doubles a planned increase)
RIGHT Care is an existing city program that routes mental health crisis calls to social workers. Between the pre-launch of RIGHT in 2018 and 2019, admittance to the ER decreased by 9% in the targeted zip codes, while it increased in the rest of the city.
Assigning mental health crisis calls to social workers SAVES LIVES. (Arrests dropped in the neighborhoods tested for the pilot, while they went up in nearby communities with similar socioeconomic markers.) https://www.fastcompany.com/90514022/this-program-sends-a-social-worker-on-911-calls-about-mental-health
