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Recommendation to request City Manager and all relevant City departments to seek funding and/or bring back a version of the federal American Rescue Plan funding that would address the increase of violent crime and support the hiring and training of new officers, through two police academies, to replace the officers lost recently to attrition before the department reaches dangerous lows.
DISCUSSION
On March 16, 2020, this council approved
a guiding document on allocation of federal American Rescue Plan
recovery funds.
Earlier this month, the mayor met with
Police Chief Robert Luna and City Manager Tom Modica to discuss our current crime data and map out next steps for public safety
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Since American Rescue Plan funds were last discussed, we have received updated allocation projections, direct feedback from those in need, and federal discussions that funding can be used to hire displaced police officers.
Last year our police department had approximately 10% reduction in sworn personnel with attrition of 80 officers at various ranks. Our expected retirements for fiscal year 2021-2022 are an additional 30 officers.
Just this last week, President Biden gave a call to action to all cities across the country to follow the lead of other local City officials by using American Rescue Plan funding to launch and strengthen Community Violence Intervention programming. In order to sustain our current violent crime intervention programming, we must move...
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