Monday, November 11, 2019

Tampa Surveillance

COMMUNITY CALL TO ACTION:
Councilmember Dingfelder
Councilmember Carlson
Councilmember Maniscalco
Councilmember Viera
Councilmember Gudes
Mayor Castor
Chief Dugan

Less than a year in on the Castor regime and not surprisingly, City Council is discussing adding unmanned drones, as they did on the November 7th agenda item. Thank to Nina of the Democratic Progressive Caucus for bringing this to light. I regret I did not see the notice before November 7. But there's still time. DRONES WILL ONLY ADD TO OVERPOLICING, SURVELLIANCE AND MARGINALIZATION OF BLACK, BROWN AND/OR POOR CITY COMMUNITIES.
CITY COUNCIL AND THE TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT WORK FOR US! On March 2018, the Policing Project released a survey. The community of all racial demographics, but especially the black community, emphasized a need for community policing, implicit bias training, cultural competency training and better use-of-force policies. Chief Dugan is WELL aware of this survey's results. (Survey: Bit.ly/tpapp0318 )
WE NEED ALL CITY OF TAMPA RESIDENTS TO WRITE TO CITY COUNCIL, THE MAYOR AND POLICE CHIEF AND TELL THEM TO GET IT TOGETHER.

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