Senator Thad Cochran, Wapampando
Senator Barbara Mikulski, Wachiwiri kwa Wapampando Komiti ya Senate pa Zazachuma
Okondedwa a Senators:
Mwina 25, 2016
Timayimira ufulu wachibadwidwe, mabungwe othandiza anthu komanso azipembedzo omwe akukhudzidwa ndi ndalama zomwe boma limapereka pazankhondo komanso nthawi zina apolisi osankhana mitundu.
Ndalama zomwe zaperekedwa m'chaka cha 2017 zikuphatikizapo kuchepetsa ndalama zambiri - kuchoka pa $ 600 miliyoni kufika ku $ 330 miliyoni - mu pulogalamu ya thandizo la Dipatimenti ya Homeland Security yomwe imadziwika kuti Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI). Iyi ndi sitepe yoyenera, ndipo mabala ayenera kupita patsogolo kwambiri. Ndalama za UASI zathandizira kuti apolisi azimenya nkhondo komanso kusayankha mlandu m'madera athu.
Mabungwe ambiri otsata malamulo mothandizidwa ndi thandizo la UASI amachita zinthu zothana ndi umbanda wamba. Koma, pakufuna maphunziro othandizidwa ndi ndalama za federal izi kuti zikhale ndi "zogwirizana ndi uchigawenga," UASI imathandizira kulimbikitsa chikhalidwe choopsa cha nkhanza chomwe chafala kwambiri m'madipatimenti apolisi aku US. UASI imapanganso mgwirizano wokhazikika pakati pa osunga malamulo ankhondo ndi zida zofunikira zothandizira mwadzidzidzi ndi ogwira ntchito.
M'malo mwake, thandizo la UASI nthawi zambiri limaperekedwa kumizinda kutengera kulimbikitsa mapulogalamu awo othana ndi uchigawenga, osati kukonzekera mwadzidzidzi. Chilengezo cha Bwanamkubwa wa New York Andrew Cuomo mu Julayi 2014, mwachitsanzo, adakambilana za "ndalama zina zokwana $18 miliyoni [zoyenera] kuperekedwa ku Mzinda wa New York kuchokera ku gawo la Boma la FY2014 UASI grant, pozindikira udindo wapadera wa City malinga ndi kuthekera. ziwopsezo za zochita za zigawenga” (1). (kutsindika kwawonjezera)
Gulu lankhondoli likuwonetsedwa bwino ndi Urban Shield, maphunziro ophunzitsidwa ndi UASI omwe amathandizidwa ndi ndalama za UASI komanso chiwonetsero cha malonda a zida chomwe chimachitika chaka chilichonse kuyambira 2007 ku Alameda County, California. Urban Shield ndi zikondwerero zankhondo zomwe zimakhala ndi zochitika za "tsoka" za Islamophobic, ogulitsa zida zazikulu akugulitsa katundu wawo kwa apolisi, komanso malonda odabwitsa amitundu. Mphoto za pulogalamuyi zamagulu a SWAT zimalimbikitsa "kuwombera poyamba, funsani mafunso pambuyo pake".
Mkhalidwe woterewu umawonekera m'magulu amtundu wa SWAT omwe amayang'ana kwambiri mabanja akuda. American Civil Liberties Union idapeza kuti opitilira theka la anthu onse omwe adakhudzidwa ndi kutumizidwa kwa SWAT anali akuda kapena a Latino, ndipo zigawenga ziwiri mwa zitatu zilizonse za SWAT zinali zilolezo zosaka mankhwala (2). Palinso zitsanzo zambiri za kuwukira kwa gulu la SWAT. Zinali zotsatira za maphunziro a gulu lankhondo la SWAT zomwe zidayambitsa zionetsero komanso nkhawa zomwe zidapangitsa kuti mzinda wa Oakland usiye kuchititsa Urban Shield mu 2014, ngakhale ikupitilirabe kudera lapafupi.
Maphunzirowa - omwe amapezeka m'matauni a 29 okhala ndi anthu ambiri m'dziko lonselo - amadyetsa mwachindunji ku zigawenga zoposa 100 za SWAT zomwe zimachitika tsiku ndi tsiku ku United States - makamaka m'madera a Black ndi Latino.
Maria Calvillo wazaka khumi ndi zitatu adagwetsa misozi pofotokoza nkhani ya tsikulo mu 2014 pomwe maofesala a timu ya Oakland SWAT adalowa mnyumba ya banja lawo, ndikumulozera mfuti, ndikufufuza banja lake, kuphatikiza mlongo wake wa miyezi itatu yemwe. anakulungidwa mubulangete la ana. “Apolisi anali ndi thanki kutsogolo kwa nyumba yathu, thanki yeniyeni. Ndinaganiza kuti ndinali mu kanema ... Zinandikwiyitsa kuti amafufuza
mlongo wanga wakhanda,” adatero Calvillo. Gulu la Oakland SWAT lakhala likuchita nawo mpikisano uliwonse wa Urban Shield kuyambira pomwe adayamba mu 2007.
Monga momwe umboniwu ukumvekera bwino, ndalama zomwe zimathandizira kuti izi zichitike, m'malo molimbana ndi "zowopsa," zakhala ngati cheke chopanda kanthu poyambitsa mantha ndi chiwawa. Ndalama ziyenera kuphatikizidwa mukukonzekera mwadzidzidzi kwa oyankha oyamba, osati kudzera mu Dipatimenti ya Chitetezo cha Kwawo ndi ndondomeko zankhondo.
Maofesi apolisi akupitiriza kupeza magalimoto ambiri okhala ndi zida, zida zatsopano zowunikira, ndi maphunziro a SWAT. Boma la feduro liyenera kuthandizira mapulogalamu a maphunziro, nyumba, maphunziro a ntchito, thanzi labwino, ndi zina zomwe zimakwaniritsa zosowa za madera athu. Tikukulimbikitsani kuti muthandizire kudulidwa komwe a Boma akukonza ku UASI, ndikusuntha ndalamazi kuti zikhale zokonzekera mwadzidzidzi zomwe sizikugwirizana ndi zolimbana ndi uchigawenga.
modzipereka,
American Friends Service Committee War Resisters League
Bill of Rights Defense Committee Fellowship of Reconciliation
Ankhondo a ku Iraq Olimbana ndi Nkhondo
Kuwonetsa Chilungamo Chamtundu
Media Alliance
Moana Nui Action ndi Alliance Environmentalists Against the War Malcolm X Grassroots Movement International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network Eastside Arts Alliance
Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice Catalyst Project
Arab Resource Organising Center
Bungwe la National Lawyers
Gulu Logwira Ntchito Zazinsinsi za Oakland
Xicana Moratorium Project
Berkeley Copwatch
Baptist Peace Fsoci yaku North America Codepink Women for Peace
World Beyond War
Anti Police Terror Project
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(1) https://www.governor.ny.gov/
(2) American Civil Liberties Union, Nkhondo Imabwera Kwawo: Kulimbana Kwambiri kwa Apolisi aku America, June 2014.
