'Cities across the country pulled an about-face on their stances to defund the police in 2021. In fact, leaders in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles have upped the funding for police departments.' | _ToniaHill of the TheTRiiBE
For a moment in the summer of 2020, it felt like the U.S. was on the brink of a revolution. Mass unemployment, coupled with the global coronavirus pandemic and the fatal police shootings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, had the streets hot nationwide.
Cities across the country pulled an about-face on their stances to defund the police in 2021. In fact, leaders in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles have upped the funding for police departments. “We have got to stop looking at midterm and presidential races as independent, siloed election cycles. One season feeds the other. Judicial races inform state legislative races, congressional races inform gubernatorial races,” Woods wrote in an email to The TRiiBE.
With so much at stake, what are some of the issues Black voters should pay close attention to during the 2022 midterm elections? As evidenced by Biden’s State of the Union speech, many politicians and Americans alike see police as the answer to the increase in crime. The tide is shifting from the 2020 #DefundThePolice campaign to pouring more dollars into police departments. In Chicago last year, Lightfoot increased the police budget to $1.9 billion, up from $1.7 billion in 2021 despite calls from organizers and activists to defund the police.
The ordinance still hasn’t been introduced to the Chicago city council. In a separate story about a police shooting in Hyde Park published by The TRiiBE on January 20, GKMC member Miracle Boyd told the TRiiBE that the ordinance has the support of Alderpersons Pat Dowell , Sophia King , Leslie Hairston , Roderick Sawyer , Jeanette Taylor , Byron Sigcho-Lopez , Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez , and Andre Vasquez Jr. .The COVID-19 pandemic hit Black Chicago hard.
“Those infrastructure projects have to and must include African American workers. We can no longer have cases where infrastructure [and] construction jobs are open to every ethnic group, but African Americans,” Starks said. “When you go throughout Chicago, in an African American neighborhood, the people that are working on those sites are non-African Americans.”
Savado is immunocompromised and is worried about the direction the school district, city, and state are taking as they relax COVID-19 mitigations. She said she doesn’t expect the district to keep students safe. She believes that her individual school community will ensure that everyone remains safe. On January 4, 73 percent of the CTU’s 25,000-plus membership voted to temporarily switch from in-person to remote learning, resulting in the cancellation of in-person learning for four days. Finally, both sides came to an agreement on January 12 and adopted a health and safety agreement.
“I’m still stuck in, like, my sixth-grade self. I haven’t learned anything since, like, sixth grade [to be] completely honest,” she said. “So with the learning structures, are we accommodating the needs of young people? Are we treating people like humans, specifically Black young people?” “When we talk about safety and what the safety was like in the building, whether that’s COVID-19 safety, or whether that’s physical safety, you need to talk about police and policing and how we undo those structures, or we talk about what are alternatives to those,” Savado said.
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