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Posts tagged ‘defunding the GRPD’

0May 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

0January 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

4May 19, 2021Last night’s City Commission meeting on the 2022 Budget was just the latest example of government contempt of public input

4May 9, 2021The GRPD arrest of a Black man going to a family wake was not because of flawed training, it was the result of a system of policing that is designed to do exactly what they did

1April 6, 2021Grand Rapids City Commissioners weigh in on Defunding the GRPD: What the MLive article doesn’t tell you

0January 25, 2021The Devil is in the Details 1/26/2021 – AmplifyGR, more public money for a global corporation and the latest effort by the City of Grand Rapids to control the GRPD narrative

9November 17, 2020City Resolution to accept $500,000 from the county for crime prevention defeated, GRPD plans to move forward with pursuing ShotSpotter

2July 23, 2020What is problematic about the recent announcement from Grand Rapids to have mental health workers collaborate with the GRPD?