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Free The People WNY is a coalition of formerly incarcerated people, directly affected people, activists, organizers, and attorneys that envision a world free from the violence and death of mass incarceration. We act together to dismantle a justice system built on white supremacy and oppression, one that dehumanizes people, and we work to create in its place anti-racist systems with the values of collective liberation and true justice at their core.
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Community Policing: Survey
Police are paid by the people and must be accountable to the people. Take ten minutes, fill out our survey, and tell the city how policing impacts you, how the Buffalo Police Department should be defunded, and how we can reinvest in and reimagine alternatives to community policing.
Closing The Holding Center: Survey
Community Policing: Survey
Police are paid by the people and must be accountable to the people. Take ten minutes, fill out our survey, and tell the city how policing impacts you, how the Buffalo Police Department should be defunded, and how we can reinvest in and reimagine alternatives to community policing.
Closing The Holding Center: Survey
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Tell Your Councilmember We Need LEAD
Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion(LEAD) is a community-based diversion approach which decenters law enforcement with the goals of improving public safety and public order, and reducing unnecessary justice system involvement of people who participate in the program.
We’ve waited long enough! Buffalo needs LEAD now.
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CALL TO ACTION!
Tell Your Councilmember We Need LEAD
Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion(LEAD) is a community-based diversion approach which decenters law enforcement with the goals of improving public safety and public order, and reducing unnecessary justice system involvement of people who participate in the program.
We’ve waited long enough! Buffalo needs LEAD now.
Contact your Councilmember and tell them we need LEAD today!
CALL TO ACTION!
Tell Your Councilmember We Need LEAD
Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion(LEAD) is a community-based diversion approach which decenters law enforcement with the goals of improving public safety and public order, and reducing unnecessary justice system involvement of people who participate in the program.
We’ve waited long enough! Buffalo needs LEAD now.
Contact your Councilmember and tell them we need LEAD today!
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