The mayor just confirmed that our police funding will remain fully intact. Thank you for staying loud throughout this fight. Keep watching the city council budget meetings to ensure it stays this way.
August 13, 2020
Final supporters
June 10, 2020
Dear Mayor Shon Harris,
As we watch this culturally diverse and beautiful country divide daily with protesting and demand for change, it seems rash decisions are being made too quickly all stemming from emotion and not logic. At this critical time in our history there is a “Defund The Police” Movement that is sweeping our nation like wildfire and it seems that some individuals here in our community have jumped on that bandwagon.
We would like to take this opportunity to express first what it means to “defund the police” then how that effects our communities.
On the surface, the call for defunding the police means to redistribute their funds to areas such as education and healthcare. However, our community is rich in resources such as low-income housing, homeless shelters, food banks, The Salvation Army, the local Health Department which is full of education, the Health and Human Services Department and the many churches that are always helping out those in need, and many others. Defunding the police will, in the end, reduce our police force, cause low morale within our police department, and even increase potential fear within our police department and possibly militarize them and even potentially cause fear within our community due to lack of police presence. Defunding the police department won’t stop abuse, it will just make the community less safe by making it more vulnerable to violence.
By defunding the police, you will expose your community to increased crime, higher emotional reactions and will ultimately cause more harm than good.
Our police officers and sheriff deputies are on the front line of defense and risk their lives daily on the job protecting our community. Defunding the police and targeting an entire police organization responsible for the actions of a few specific officers is wrong, immoral and irresponsible. Demonizing an entire profession is dangerous and quite frankly, prejudice and only perpetuates animosity.
The areas in the nation that have already lost large portions of their police force due to the defunding and/or dismantling of the police and/or loss of police lives have already seen an exponential increase in crime.
Yuba City has never been an area of high crime and the YCPD has always had an exceptional record and report with the community. Defunding the YCPD and/or the Sutter County Sheriff Department to appease the few would be detrimental to the many in our community and we implore you to consider holding off on such an idea during this time.
Many warm regards,
Concerned Yuba City Residents
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
June 12, 2020
Reached 100 supporters
June 11, 2020
June 10, 2020
We are approaching 500 signatures and need a push to cross that threshold. Text this link to three people who want to keep our department fully funded. Post this on your Facebook feed so our neighbors see exactly what is at stake.
June 9, 2020
We are approaching one hundred signatures and the mayor needs to see this number climb before we deliver our position. Take a moment to text three friends the link to this petition right now. Post this to your Facebook page to ensure our message reaches the entire community.
183 Comments
I am completely against cutting funding to the Police or Sheriff departments. If anything there should be increased funding for training and mental health/ counseling services for officers.
police are a huge part of keeping a community safe and all those officers would be out of work dont add more people to the unemployment list lets show our officers how much we back them like they have always backed us.
I've lived my entire life (46 yrs) in the Yuba/Sutter area and in recent years I've seen a lot of changes. Defunding law enforcement should NOT be one of them.
Just because something happened back east doesn't mean all police departments are like them. Our men and women of the Yuba City P.D are a wonderful group of people who risk their lives everyday protecting the people and dedunding them will be the biggest mistake we already have enough crime and by doing so it will only get worse
Please don't defund the police department crime is already bad enough. The "car-hopping", people getting assaulted on the streets at night and business being broken into would be the ONLY increase we would see with less cops.
Do NOT defund the police
We need our police to keep things in control.
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The mayor just confirmed that our police funding will remain fully intact. Thank you for staying loud throughout this fight. Keep watching the city council budget meetings to ensure it stays this way.
August 13, 2020
Final supporters
June 10, 2020
Dear Mayor Shon Harris,
As we watch this culturally diverse and beautiful country divide daily with protesting and demand for change, it seems rash decisions are being made too quickly all stemming from emotion and not logic. At this critical time in our history there is a “Defund The Police” Movement that is sweeping our nation like wildfire and it seems that some individuals here in our community have jumped on that bandwagon.
We would like to take this opportunity to express first what it means to “defund the police” then how that effects our communities.
On the surface, the call for defunding the police means to redistribute their funds to areas such as education and healthcare. However, our community is rich in resources such as low-income housing, homeless shelters, food banks, The Salvation Army, the local Health Department which is full of education, the Health and Human Services Department and the many churches that are always helping out those in need, and many others. Defunding the police will, in the end, reduce our police force, cause low morale within our police department, and even increase potential fear within our police department and possibly militarize them and even potentially cause fear within our community due to lack of police presence. Defunding the police department won’t stop abuse, it will just make the community less safe by making it more vulnerable to violence.
By defunding the police, you will expose your community to increased crime, higher emotional reactions and will ultimately cause more harm than good.
Our police officers and sheriff deputies are on the front line of defense and risk their lives daily on the job protecting our community. Defunding the police and targeting an entire police organization responsible for the actions of a few specific officers is wrong, immoral and irresponsible. Demonizing an entire profession is dangerous and quite frankly, prejudice and only perpetuates animosity.
The areas in the nation that have already lost large portions of their police force due to the defunding and/or dismantling of the police and/or loss of police lives have already seen an exponential increase in crime.
Yuba City has never been an area of high crime and the YCPD has always had an exceptional record and report with the community. Defunding the YCPD and/or the Sutter County Sheriff Department to appease the few would be detrimental to the many in our community and we implore you to consider holding off on such an idea during this time.
Many warm regards,
Concerned Yuba City Residents
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
June 12, 2020
Reached 100 supporters
June 11, 2020
June 10, 2020
We are approaching 500 signatures and need a push to cross that threshold. Text this link to three people who want to keep our department fully funded. Post this on your Facebook feed so our neighbors see exactly what is at stake.
June 9, 2020
We are approaching one hundred signatures and the mayor needs to see this number climb before we deliver our position. Take a moment to text three friends the link to this petition right now. Post this to your Facebook page to ensure our message reaches the entire community.
183 Comments
Law and order!!! Do not let this community succumb to more crime in absence of our police!!! Train and retrain and do background checks!!
I am completely against cutting funding to the Police or Sheriff departments. If anything there should be increased funding for training and mental health/ counseling services for officers.
police are a huge part of keeping a community safe and all those officers would be out of work dont add more people to the unemployment list lets show our officers how much we back them like they have always backed us.
I've lived my entire life (46 yrs) in the Yuba/Sutter area and in recent years I've seen a lot of changes. Defunding law enforcement should NOT be one of them.
Just because something happened back east doesn't mean all police departments are like them. Our men and women of the Yuba City P.D are a wonderful group of people who risk their lives everyday protecting the people and dedunding them will be the biggest mistake we already have enough crime and by doing so it will only get worse
Please don't defund the police department crime is already bad enough. The "car-hopping", people getting assaulted on the streets at night and business being broken into would be the ONLY increase we would see with less cops.
Do NOT defund the police
We need our police to keep things in control.
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Law and order!!! Do not let this community succumb to more crime in absence of our police!!! Train and retrain and do background checks!!