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May 25, 2022

At NYC Council Budget Hearing, New Yorkers Demand $1B Cut to NYPD Budget & Increase in Investments in Non-Police Health and Safety Solutions

Today, Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) members and partners, including Audre Lorde Project, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Make the Road NY, the Urban Youth Collaborative, New York City Anti-Violence Project and more delivered testimony to the NYC City Council public hearing on the FY23 budget. Community leaders, advocates and experts called for cuts to the NYPD budget and increased investments in non-police health and safety solutions.

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May 13, 2022

CPR Statement: Mayor Adams uses ghost guns to continue fear-mongering to further policing agenda

CPR Statement: Communities United for Police Reform calls for lasting safety solutions, not fear tactics as cover to flood communities of color with police

The following is a statement from Monifa Bandele, member of Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, on behalf of Communities United for Police Reform in response to Mayor Adams’ latest press antics seeking to excuse his administration’s commitment to investing in police over communities. This time ghost guns are his tool to scare New Yorkers.

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April 28, 2022

Statement: Gwen Carr & Petitioners Respond to Final Hearing of Judicial Inquiry in Eric Garner’s Killing, Calling for Firing of Officers Who Engaged In Misconduct

Today, the New York State Supreme Court held its final hearing in Carr v. de Blasio, the historic judicial inquiry into violations and neglect of duty by New York City and NYPD officials, related to the 2014 NYPD killing of Eric Garner and subsequent cover-up.

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April 27, 2022

Statement: CPR Responds to Mayor Adams’ Budget

“Budgets are moral documents, and the Mayor’s budget released yesterday reflects that the city values policing and criminalization over solutions that will actually improve the lives of New Yorkers across the city, especially Black, Latinx and other communities of color. These communities have been the most devastated by disinvestment and need solutions which address long-term public safety and health,” said Keli Young (she/her), spokesperson for Communities United for Police Reform.

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April 15, 2022

CPR Statement in response to Shooting Incident in Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Below is a statement from Communities United for Police Reform spokesperson, Rama Issa-Ibrahim, in response to the April 12, 2022 mass shooting incident in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

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March 31, 2022

Family Members of Delrawn Small and Dozens of Elected Officials and Racial Justice Organizations Call on Mayor Adams & NYPD Commissioner Sewell to Reject Police Union’s Effort to Block Discipline Proceeding in 2016 Brooklyn Police Killing

Group announced letters from twenty-six elected officials and dozens of racial justice groups, following recent news that police union attorneys representing Officer Wayne Isaacs made a formal request to prevent the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) from advancing discipline proceedings against Isaacs

Today, Delrawn Small’s siblings, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, City Cou

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March 30, 2022

At City Council Hearing, New Yorkers Demand Investment in Real Solutions, Not on Failed and Dangerous Policing Laid out in Mayor's Blueprint

Today, New York City community leaders elevated community-centered solutions for public safety at a City Council hearin

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March 25, 2022

Desperate Cop & Police Union Push for Backroom Deal with NYPD Commissioner to Circumvent Firing of Officer that Killed Delrawn Small

In a meeting with the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) today, Delrawn Small’s family learned that the NYPD office

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March 24, 2022

Mayor’s Embrace of Discredited Broken Windows Policing an Invitation for Violence and Criminalization

Communities United for Police Reform Issues Warning After Mayor Adams Tells NYPD to Embrace Giuliani and Bloomberg Approach

In response to the NYPD’s renewed focus on broken windows policing and Mayor Adams’ purported comments embracing b

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March 24, 2022

Mayor’s Embrace of Discredited Broken Windows Policing an Invitation for Violence and Criminalization

Communities United for Police Reform Issues Warning After Mayor Adams Tells NYPD to Embrace Giuliani and Bloomberg Approach

In response to the NYPD’s renewed focus on broken windows policing and Mayor Adams’ purported comments embracing b

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