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Posts tagged ‘defunding the GRPD’

1October 20, 2024Questions about policing in Grand Rapids were primarily avoided at candidate forum last week

2April 30, 2023Police Chief Winstrom made a fool out of himself with fraudulent comments about activists in Grand Rapids who are demanding the GRPD be defunded

0January 30, 2023Perpetuating structural racism in Kent County: Questioning the process for COVID relief funding and the limits of electoral politics in The Diatribe case

3August 14, 2022Despite public perception, the Democratic Party is equally committed to supporting and increasing funding for the police

0July 20, 2022At least two campaigns now exist to oppose the Grand Rapids petition to amend the City Charter to redirect some City funds away from policing and towards community needs

1May 11, 2022While Grand Rapids City Commission meeting is shut down again, local commercial news media fail to center the demands of those who are protesting the GRPD killing of Patrick Lyoya

0May 3, 2022Despite the local news headlines, the GRPD will NOT be reducing the number of cops in the proposed 2023 City Budget

1January 17, 2022Is there really any benefit to holding a public forum for the next chief of police, when the public doesn’t get to decide?

0June 27, 2021The Grand Rapids Police Officer’s Association is not interested in answers to how to deal with violence in our community, they just want people to not question the function of policing in Grand Rapids

9May 19, 2021Last night’s City Commission meeting on the 2022 Budget was just the latest example of government contempt of public input