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A
Take
this
meeting
live
in
just
about
10
seconds.
I
will
turn
over
to
megan
and
we
can
start
the
meeting
about
10
seconds.
C
C
Okay,
thanks
jared
hi
everyone
thanks
again
for
joining
us
tonight.
This
is
the
sixth
and
final
virtual
public
outreach
meeting
held
as
part
of
the
binghamton
police
reform
and
reinvention
collaborative.
My
name
is
megan
brockett.
I
work
in
mayor
rich
david's
office
as
assistant
for
neighborhood
and
youth
affairs
and
I'll
be
serving
as
the
moderator
for
tonight's
meeting.
C
The
collaborative
has
held
five
prior
public
outreach
meetings
to
collect
input
from
various
stakeholders,
ranging
from
members
of
the
local
faith
community
to
business
organizations
and
neighborhood
groups
and
others
regarding
improvements
or
reform
to
the
binghamton
police
department.
The
purpose
of
tonight's
open
public
meeting
is
to
solicit
input
from
members
of
the
broader
community.
C
As
you
can
see
on
your
screens,
we
are
joined
again
tonight
by
several
members
of
the
syrian
committee,
including
mayor
rich
david
binghamton,
police,
chief,
joe
zakusky
district
attorney
mike
korczyk
and
public
defender
mike
baker,
along
with
several
other
members
of
the
committee.
Thank
you
all
for
joining
us
again
tonight.
C
This
meeting,
as
I
said,
is
about
hearing
directly
from
community
members
on
ways.
The
police
department
can
better
serve
the
city's
diverse
community,
improve
public
safety,
implement
21st
century
policing,
strategies,
strengthen
relationships
and
trust
and
address
the
disparities
that
affect
communities
of
color.
Your
input
is
necessary
to
reach
these
goals,
as
outlined
in
governor
cuomo's
executive
order.
C
As
a
reminder,
the
city
has
selected
the
finn
institute
for
public
safety
to
serve
as
an
independent
research
partner.
In
this
effort,
sin
is
charged
with
collecting
and
tracking
public
input
and
themes
during
these
outreach
meetings
and
surveying
stakeholders
for
additional
input,
they'll
be
reviewing
a
video
copy
of
tonight's
meeting
as
an
fyi.
Earlier
today,
a
community
survey
developed
by
finn
for
this
collaborative
was
posted
on
the
city
website.
C
It's
another
important
opportunity
for
the
public
to
voice
their
input
on
policing
and
public
safety
matters
in
binghamton.
You
can
find
a
link
to
the
survey
on
the
collaborative
page
of
the
city
website.
That's
also
been
emailed
directly
to
all
steering
committee
members,
so
we're
hopeful
that
y'all,
you
will
all
share
it
with
your
your
neighbors
and
your
networks
and
respond
to
it.
C
Please
feel
free
to
email
it
to
the
binghamton
collaborative
that
email
address
is
bpv
collaborative
at
city
of
binghamton.com,
we'll
make
sure
it
gets
shared
with
all
the
steering
committee
members
and
included
as
part
of
the
official
record
after
tonight's
meeting
this
year
and
committee
may
wish
to
follow
up
with
you
for
additional
input
or
questions
again.
All
of
this
information
is
part
of
the
community
input
record
that
will
be
included
in
the
finn
institute's
compilation
of
public
comment.
C
B
Hi,
I'm
jill
schultz.
I've
lived
on
the
east
side
for
nearly
20
years.
I
want
this
reform
to
succeed,
but
I'm
wary
it's
not
that
I
doubt
the
sincerity
or
the
commitment
of
the
collaborative
members.
It's
the
process,
that's
flawed!
Two
months
is
not
enough
time
to
gather
significant
public
comment
and
develop
a
plan.
B
B
I
wonder
if
that
includes
facial
recognition,
technology,
which
has
a
significantly
higher
failure
rate
for
women
and
for
people
of
color.
If
public
input
really
mattered
in
this
process,
the
mayor
would
not
be
making
such
substantive
changes
to
policing
before
the
collaborative
even
held
its
first
public
meeting.
B
B
B
B
B
C
Thank
you
joe.
Our
next
speaker
tonight
is
april
fellain
april
I'll
start
the
timer.
D
Mccree
was
a
very
dedicated
person.
This
was
a
teacher.
She
was
a
motivational
speaker.
She
empowered
a
lot
of
women
out
here.
It
went
from
a
situation
of
her
car
being
vandalized
to
her
now
ending
up
in
jail
and
going
to
serve
three
and
a
half
to
seven
years,
for
something
that
I
feel
like
the
police
did
not
take
probable
procedures
to
handle,
nor
did
the
judge
or
the
lawyers.
I
feel
like
a
lot
of
things,
should
change
inside
of
this
situation.
D
Also
inside
of
the
jails
inside
of
the
jails
they
have
cold
water
they've
been
having
cold
water
for
the
past
two
to
three
weeks.
A
lot
of
the
inmates
are
not
getting
their
religious
value,
which
is
which
is
actually
religious
persecution,
if
you
don't
give
them
what
they
deserve,
and
it
is
inside
of
your
policy
to
give
them
their
religious
values.
The
way
that
the
police
officers
talk
to
the
women
inside
there
is
degrading.
It's
depressing.
It's
it's
something
you
do
not
do
when
they're
already
in
a
bad
situation.
D
D
D
I
don't
believe
that
she
should
still
be
in
jail
and
actually
going
to
prison
where
they
have
limitations
of
a
lot
of
health
products
inside
of
the
prisons
like
soap,
they
don't
have
a
lot
of
stuff
for
officers
or
gastric
ulcers
to
be
exact,
so
people
are
getting
sick
and
I
believe
this
could
be
something
that
will
handle
her
in
the
long
run.
I
feel
like
nothing
was
done
properly.
None
of
the
process
was
done
properly.
D
I
actually
was
there
to
witness
everything
and
to
see
that
these
police
officers
took
the
process
the
way
they
did
and
was
so
nonchalant
about.
It
was
very
disgusting
and
I
believe
that
a
lot
needs
to
change,
and
a
lot
of
programs
needs
to
come
to
the
inmates
that
are
inside
of
these
jails.
Instead
of
wait,
they
get
all
the
way
to
prison
and
they
actually
have
to
reach
that
state.
They
should
be
able
to
have
some
type
of
help
here.
D
It's
no
type
of
program
for
people
here,
so
these
people
have
to
sit
here
until
they
can
go
to
prison
and
actually
receive
help,
which
is
not
fair,
because
if
you
were
innocent
in
the
beginning,
but
had
a
judge
that
was
racist
disrespectful,
I
have
a
cop,
that's
not
trying
to
tell
the
truth.
It
enters
you
in
this
situation
where
now
you're
guilty,
and
you
could
be
facing
time
inside
of
prison.
D
I
feel
like
that's
not
fair
for
her
and
I
feel
like
it's
not
fair
for
many
other
women
that
are
inside
of
these
jails
right
now
and
I
feel
like
it
needs
to
be
more
justice
when
it
comes
to
the
african-american
women
in
the
african-american
state
itself,
people
don't
see
what
happens
to
african-americans
inside
of
these
police
departments.
Inside
of
these
corrections
facilities,
they
get
treated
like
slaves,
they
get
disrespected
and
she's,
one
of
them
that
are
getting
religious
persecuted
for
something
that
she
loves
the
most
and
I
feel
like
that
is
wrong.
C
Thank
you
april
and
thank
you
for
submitting
your
written
comment.
We've
received
that
we'll
make
sure
it's
included
too,
as
part
of
the
public
record.
Thank
you.
Okay.
Next,
up
on
our
list,
we
have
marilyn
mccall
marilyn.
Are
you
here
with
us?
Yes,
okay,
great,
I
will
start
the
timer
and
the
floor
is
yours.
E
I'm
I
really
haven't
seen
what
binghamton
is
proposing
as
a
reform.
This
is-
and
this
is
my
first
meeting
but
I
did
see
boone
county's
sheriff's
reform
package.
I
don't
see
anything
in
there
on
retraining
the
officers.
E
They
need
empathy,
training.
E
E
C
Okay,
thank
you
marilyn
for
your
for
your
time
tonight.
For
being
here,
we
appreciate
it
next
up
on
our
list.
We
have
janet
mchenry,
I'm
not
sure
if
I
see
janet
on
our
screen
here,
I
don't
think
so.
So
we'll
come
back
to
her.
How
about
dr
sarah
girth,
dr
gerk,
are
you
with
us.
B
F
Hi,
I'm
sarah
garc,
I'm
sorry,
I'm
sitting
here.
It's
the
mac
and
cheese
fest
at
the
binghamton
philharmonic
tonight
and
I
have
I'm
surrounded
by
mac
and
cheese
and
eating
my
dinner.
But
I
I
don't
have
too
much
to
say
at
the
moment,
but
I
do
want
to
share
my
concerns
about
this
process.
F
This
process
was
enacted
by
andrew
cuomo
as
an
act
of,
and
my
understanding
of
what
this
should
be
is
focused
on
conversations
around
how
we
can
do
better
and
improve
relationships
between
the
binghamton
police
department
and
people
who
are
historically
brutalized
by
police
forces
and
there's
so
much
scientific
evidence
at
this
point,
there's
so
much
research
that
shows
what
happens
broadly
in
the
united
states.
F
The
trends
broadly
in
the
united
states
and
some
people
locally
have
done
an
awful
lot
to
illuminate
specific
situations
here
in
binghamton,
and
I
have
been
listening
into
some
of
these
sessions.
I've
been
trying
to
chart
this
the
progress
of
this
particular
project
and
I'm
not
seeing
enough
engagement
with
the
right
people.
F
I'm
not
seeing
enough
support
for
proven
methods
to
improve
relationships
and
to
reduce
police
brutality
in
this
area,
and
I'm
just
I'm
just
very
disappointed
in
the
selection
of
the
committee
in
and
in
the
proceedings
thus
far,
and
I
think
that
we
can
do
better
as
a
community,
and
I
hope
that
we
find
a
way
to
establish
some
programs
that
can
lead
to
real
change
in
the
lives
of
the
most
vulnerable
people
in
our
community.
C
G
Hi,
my
name
is
kathy
and
I'm
a
resident
of
the
city
of
binghamton.
I
live
in
a
poor,
neighborhood
downtown.
I
work
and
volunteer
my
little
free
time
in
the
city
and
have
noted
the
resistance
to
change
even
being
offered
by
some
people
on
this
committee
when
the
governor
called
for
a
plan
you
resisted.
But
here
we
are
reinvest
in
our
community
with
12
additional
police
officers
hired.
G
We
could
have
invested
1.2
million
dollars
per
year
in
our
community.
We
could
hire
mental
health
response.
Teams
with
qualified
professionals
could
have
funded
a
youth
center,
where
kids
could
be
safe
and
move
forward
in
the
community
they
grew
up
in.
We
could
have
given
students.
Internet
access
to
learn
from
home
during
a
pandemic,
provide
food
for
families
through
the
farm
share
program,
open
a
harm
reduction
counseling
center.
These
are
all
programs
that
show
direct
and
real
results.
G
All
of
these
meetings,
and
speaking,
will
do
nothing
if
the
people
on
the
other
end,
do
not
open
their
minds
and
hear
their
neighbors.
The
groups
that
continue
to
speak
at
these
meetings,
regardless
of
the
feelings
of
speaking
to
the
wall
or
community.
You
should
want
to
see
these
are
the
people
who
show
up
and
speak
for
the
many
people
in
our
community
who
don't
feel
connected
or
valued.
We
work
here
we
pay
rent
own
homes,
shop
in
stores
and
work
in
those
stores.
G
C
H
Thank
you
megan.
I
hadn't
planned
on
speaking,
but
I
just
I
wanted
to
say
that
I'm
happy
to
have
been
able
to
sit
in
on
one
of
these
prior
conversations,
and
I
can
just
say
you
know
personally,
that
my
experiences
with
the
police
have
only
been
positive.
I've
never
had
a
bad
experience
and
I
have
had
some
interaction
with
problems
in
the
neighborhood
and
it's
never
been
anything
but
positive
and
immediate
action.
H
C
Thank
you
robin
next
on
our
list
of
speakers
tina,
quinopoulos,
tina
the
floor
is.
I
Yours
hi,
can
you
hear
me?
Yes,
we
can
hear
you
okay,
awesome.
Let
me
give
me
just
one
second,
all
right,
I'm
ready
to
roll.
My
name
is
tina
cronopolous,
my
pronouns
are
shivers
for
those
who
are
listening.
It's
important.
You
know
that
I
am
white.
I
have
lived
and
worked
in
binghamton
for
ten
and
a
half
years
and
have
been
deeply
involved
with
the
community.
Since
I
arrived
here,
I
volunteered
for
five
years
with
identity
youth
center
and
also
served
on
the
stamp
board
for
six
years.
I
Most
recently,
I've
been
involved
with
just's
visiting
program
until
covet
put
an
end
to
in-person
visits
at
the
broome
county
jail,
I'm
so
honored
and
proud
to
be
part
of
this
awesome
group
of
folks
who
have
already
gone
ahead
of
me
and
who've
said
many,
many
things
that
I
absolutely
agree
with.
You
all
rock
and
you
give
me
hope
for
a
future
in
which
black
indigenous
and
people
of
color
can
walk
around
without
fear
for
their
lives.
I
It
would
be
remiss
of
me
not
to
mention
that
I
speak
to
you
from
the
unjustly
appropriated
lands
of
the
nations
of
the
haudenosaunee
confederacy
and
lenin
lenape.
It
is
imperative
that
we
acknowledge
that
the
wealth
of
the
usa
was
founded
on
shuttle,
slavery
and
the
genocide
of
an
appropriation
of
land
from
indigenous
nations.
If
you
read
the
executive
order,
it
very
clearly
says
that
black
lives
matter.
I
It
very
clearly
asks
the
community
to
come
together
to
imagine
a
policing
practice
for
itself
that
results
in
improved
policies
and
transparency
to
reduce
any
racial
disparities
in
policing.
The
use
of
force
policy
of
the
binghamton
police
department
includes
a
provision
mandating
that
the
data
be
analyzed
to
determine
if
there
are
any
particular
trends.
I
The
one
trend
I
see
looking
at
all
age
groups
is
a
clear
example
and
a
clear
example
of
racial
disparity
is
that
the
use
of
force
is
disproportionately
applied
to
black
folks
on
average
for
the
years
2015
to
2019,
44
of
use
of
force
applications
happen
to
white
people,
while
49
happen
to
black
people.
This
is
completely
out
of
whack
in
a
city
where
12
percent
of
residents
are
black.
I
I
Part
of
this
process
should
include
consideration
of
foundational
issues
and
areas
where
we
can
intervene
before
someone
comes
into
contact
with
the
police.
According
to
data
available
from
the
u.s
census
website,
binghamton
is
the
poorest
city
in
the
entire
state
of
new
york
relatively
to
its
population.
Binghamton
is
poorer,
even
than
buffalo
jamestown,
syracuse,
rochester
and
utica.
I
Two-Thirds
of
those
living
in
poverty
are
working.
Poor
people
who
work
two
jobs
to
make
ends
meet
and
a
country
where
wages
have
been
stagnant,
while
the
cost
of
living
has
gone
up,
they
have
been
left
behind
by
the
system.
I
see
this
as
a
failure
in
leadership
and
vision
of
our
locally
elected
officials
over
decades
who
have
been
unwilling
to
deal
with
these
issues,
blaming
them
instead
of
individuals
whom
they
see
as
lazy
or
coming
here,
to
get
a
free
ride,
which
is
a
rhetorical,
divisive
and
often
tacitly
racist
tactic.
I
Binghamton
lacks
quality,
affordable
housing,
robust
social
services
like
daycare,
adequate
provision
for
those
who
suffer
from
mental
health
or
substance
abuse
disorders
and
so
on.
Yet
the
city
is
willing
to
renovate
the
tennis
courts
at
rec
park
to
the
tune
of
1.5
million
dollars
during
a
pandemic
when
people
in
the
city
are
hungry
and
live
in
cockroach-infested
apartments
that
belong
to
locally
known
slumlords.
I
Our
elected
leaders
have
contributed
to
this
problem
by
allocating
money
to
law
enforcement
and
underfunding
services
that
would
tackle
some
of
these
issues,
with
the
concomitant
result
that
the
police
have
essentially
become
a
dumping
ground
for
issues
that
they
are
not
equipped
to
deal
with.
I'd
like
the
committee
to
consider
banning
no
knock
search
warrants,
stopping
the
practice
of
sending
police
along
with
ambulances
after
someone
has
been
given
narcan
a
person
in
this
situation.
Does
not
need
to
be
cuffed
tackled
or
arrested.
I
They
need
medical
care,
making
racial
profiling
by
law
enforcement
illegal
and
regularly
regularly
posting
demographic
data
relating
to
law
enforcement
activities,
reallocating
a
portion
of
the
police
budget
to
fund
youth
programs,
subsidized
housing,
homeless,
shelters
and
re-entry
programs.
Some
of
that
money
could
also
be
used
to
create
a
non-emergency
phone
service
to
develop
a
citizen
response
team
and
to
hire
mental
health
and
substance
abuse
disorder
specialists
who
are
not
subordinate
to
the
bpd.
I
Finally,
as
someone
who
is
queer
and
who
has
family
members,
friends
and
students
who
are
trans,
I
want
to
uplift
bob
egan's
suggestion
that
the
bpd
consider
adopting
a
policy
that
regulates
the
police's
interactions
with
trans
people.
It
is
good
to
see
the
bpd
reform
web
page
gradually
being
populated
with
information
on
the
department's
operations.
A
complaints
procedure
is
still
missing.
I
am
glad
you
have
finally
made
a
comic
community
survey
available
and
hope
you
will
publicize
it
via
print
and
radio.
Having
said
that,
I
am
dismayed,
but
the
deadline
is
the
1st
of
march.
I
C
Thank
you
tina
and
please
feel
free
to
send
in
your
in
testimony.
If
we
cut
you
off
there,
we'll
share
it
with
the
with
the
rest
of
the
steering
committee
and
for
the
record
next
up,
councilwoman
aviva
friedman,
councilman
the
floor
is
yours.
J
Now,
okay,
great
I'm
calling
in
on
my
phone,
so
there's
like
three
different
buttons.
I
have
to
press
sure
all
right,
hi
everyone
good
evening.
My
name
is
aviva
friedman,
and
I
am
the
city
council
representative
for
district
4,
which
encompasses
downtown,
and
the
north
side
of
binghamton
problems
with
the
police
are
not
an
issue
of
good
apples
or
bad
apples,
but
rather
the
location
of
the
apple
tree.
What
I
mean
is
it's:
the
situations
where
we
decide
police
are
necessary
by
definition
of
their
job.
J
Police
are
required
to
respond
to
all
sorts
of
emergency
calls,
even
if
the
situation
would
be
better
served
by
a
different
professional
many
times.
Situations
are
automatically
escalated
by
the
presence
of
a
police
officer.
Even
if
that
officer
is
professional,
respectful
and
follows
protocols
to
a
t.
J
The
agencies
would
employ
unarmed
monitors
to
enforce
traffic
laws,
so
exceptions
would
be
made
for
violations
that
involve
certain
crimes,
that
police
would
still
investigate
like
hit
and
runs
or
driving
a
stolen
vehicle
traffic
agencies
would
also
handle
any
automated
traffic
enforcement.
Taking
the
responsibility
to
review
red
light
cameras
and
issue
tickets
away
from
the
police,
end
quote:
berkeley.
California
has
already
put
forth
a
proposal
to
implement
a
program
like
this.
Binghamton
could
do
just
the
same,
quoting
o'connor
again.
J
Black
drivers
are
20
percent,
more
likely
to
be
stopped
than
white
drivers
and
as
much
as
twice
as
likely
to
be
searched.
According
to
a
study
of
100
million
traffic
stops
conducted
by
the
stanford,
open,
policing,
project
and
11
of
all
fatal
shootings
by
police
in
2015
occurred
during
traffic.
Stop
according
to
a
washington
post
database
of
police
killings.
End
quote:
this
is
a
clear
situation
where
an
armed
police
officer
would
not
be
necessary
to
respond
and
the
job
could
be
effectively
filled
by
another
unarmed
employee.
J
I
would
also
be
remiss
if
I
didn't
voice
my
frustration
and
anger
at
the
process
implemented
in
this
collaborative
I'm
angered
at
the
implication
that
grassroots
groups,
who
have
worked
for
months
to
collect
community
input
about
community
safety
reimagination,
are
called
hate
groups
in
order
to
discredit
the
valuable
work
that
they
are
doing.
What
do
they?
Allegedly,
hate
police
brutality,
racism
having
months
of
planning,
preparation
and
execution
of
exactly
what
governor
cuomo
is
calling
for
in
these
collaboratives
be
disregarded,
because
I
hate
that
too.
J
Imagine
a
forum
on
accessibility
where
people
who
use
wheelchairs
attest
to
a
lack
of
elevators
or
ramps,
and
deaf
folks
requested
sign
language,
interpreters
and
blind
folks.
Ask
for
braille
signs.
Imagine
further
that
able-bodied
folks
came
to
the
forum
to
give
testimonies
about
how
easy
it
is
to
walk
into
the
building,
how
they
can
hear
the
lectures
just
fine
and
how
the
signage
in
the
building
is
nice
and
clear.
That
would
be
ridiculous.
J
The
addition
of
ramps,
interpreters
and
braille
makes
that
building
more
accessible
to
those
who
need
it
and
continues
to
function.
Just
the
same
for
those
who
do
not,
this
is
what
we
are
doing
right
now
by
speaking
over
those
who
are
desperately
advocating
for
change.
Why
are
we
considering
the
voices
of
those
for
whom
the
police
department
works
just
fine,
when
we
should
instead
be
heeding
the
solutions
proposed
by
those
for
whom
it
does
not?
J
I
would
also
like
to
add
that
I
see
multiple
comments
of
people
who
didn't
realize
that
they
had
to
register
for
this
event,
and
I
was
wondering
if
we
could
make
time
for
people
who
were
under
the
impression
that
this
was
a
public
comment
session.
So
I
just
would
would
like
to
request
that,
if
possible-
and
I
will
link
the
the
article
that
I
quoted
in
the
chat
box.
Thank
you.
C
Thank
you
and
if
you
could
just
submit
written
testimony,
if
you
have
that
to
the
bpd
collaborator,
that
would
be
appreciated
next
on
our
list,
brenda
brown
brenda
the
floor
is
yours.
C
Okay,
so
we'll
circle
back
to
brenda.
Next
up
on
our
list
is
alexis
plus
alexis.
K
There
we
go.
Thank
you
very
much.
I
have
already
shared
truth
farms
position
on
this,
so
I'm
coming
tonight
to
tell
a
personal
story
to
demonstrate
the
racism
within
binghamton
policing,
we
at
truth
farm
host
an
annual
event
called
the
trail
of
truth
to
memorialize
those
lost
to
substance
use.
This
is
an
event
that
the
mayor
used
to
sponsor
through
a
significant
donation
from
the
city
that
is
until
he
started,
calling
us
a
hate
group,
because
we
stand
for
black
lives
matter,
but
that's
beside
the
point.
K
Hundreds
of
people
attend
the
trail
of
truth
each
year
and
we
march
from
the
martin
luther
king
promenade,
two
governmental
complex
one
year,
a
police
car
showed
up
at
the
end
of
the
wall
street
sort
of
kind
of
watching
over
our
gathering.
I
suppose
this
made
people
there
feel
really
uncomfortable,
because
many
people
who
suffer
from
substance
use
disorder
have
had
negative
experiences
with
policing.
K
So
I
walked
down
and
I
asked
the
officer
if
he
would
leave
to
which
he
replied
no
problem.
It
was
as
simple
as
that,
but
then
again
I'm
a
middle-aged
white
lady
and
policing
usually
goes
like
that.
For
me,
fast
forward
to
this
summer,
when
multiple
black
lives
matter,
rallies
were
held,
which
I
also
attended
suddenly
even
with
rallies
smaller
than
our
trail
of
truth.
There
were
countless
police
officers,
not
friendly,
not
no
problem
at
all.
Ma'am
will
leave
but
intimidating
armed,
frequently
dressed
in
riot
gear
police
officers.
K
We
were
all
very
concerned
for
our
hours
and
everyone
else's
safety,
leading
up
to
the
rally
online
openly
on
news
stories
and
even
during
the
rally
commenters
online
threatened
to
come
to
the
rally
and
open
fire
at
one
of
the
events,
a
truck
revved
its
engine
and
sped
towards
the
crowd
for
one
rally
in
particular,
when
I
was
going
to
the
rally,
literally
in
fear
for
myself
and
everyone
who
was
attending.
I
kissed
my
partner
goodbye
and
wondered.
If
I'd
see
him
again,
I
texted
my
kids
to
tell
them.
K
Survive
I
feared
for
what
some
community
some
angry
community
member
about
us,
calling
it
for
an
end
to
racism
might
do
to
us.
When
we
got
there,
there
were
about
60
officers
armed
in
riot
gear,
lined
up
along
the
governmental
plaza.
There
were
countless
officers
in
vehicles
at
multiple
intersections
outside
of
the
immediate
rally
area
as
well,
but
they
weren't
there
in
response
to
the
to
the
death
threats
towards
us.
They
weren't
there
to
protect
us
in
any
way
they
were
there
in
response
to
us.
K
They
were
there
to
intimidate
us,
even
though
we
were
the
ones
who
had
death
threats
hurled
at
us,
they
were
there
to
stand
against
us
saying
that
black
lives
mattered.
Why?
Why
is
it
that
the
police
were
more
concerned
about
people
raising
their
voices
to
say
that
black
lives
matter?
Then
they
were
concerned
about
the
death
threats
from
community
members
towards
us.
I
realized
that
day
that
that
was
the
only
time
I
have
ever
feared
police.
It
was
when
I
stood
up
to
say
that
black
lives
matter.
K
I
find
it
startingly
curious
that
in
may
of
the
same
year,
dozens
of
protesters
planned
a
rally
at
the
governmental
plaza
to
protest
having
to
wear
masks
during
covid.
These
protesters
even
openly
encouraged
each
other
to
come.
Armed,
what's
really
fascinating
is
there
was
no
police
presence
at
that
protest?
K
No
police
in
riot
gear,
no
tanks,
no
officers
protecting
the
building.
This
is
so
reminiscent
of
the
difference
between
washington,
of
the
difference
that
we
saw
in
washington
dc
between
the
pro
the
response
to
black
lives
matter
protests
and
the
trump
supporters
storming
the
capitals
capital
with
weapons
who
even
beat
and
killed
officers.
It
would
seem
that
our
elected
officials,
binghamton
policies
and
policing
are
all
deeply
committed
to
maintaining
not
only
their
own
racism,
but
the
racism
that
exists
in
our
community,
and
we
all
see
it
plain
as
day
yesterday
I
wanted
to
give
up.
K
I
wanted
to
stop
raising
my
voice.
I
wanted
to
stop
speaking
up,
because
here
we
are
in
the
midst
of
this.
This
collaborative.
No,
I'm
almost
done
where
countless
community
members
have
been
raising
their
voice.
We
need
less
money
in
policing
and
more
money
invested
in
community-based
organizations
where
countless
community
members
mention
substance,
use
and
substance
use
disorders
being
the
biggest
concern
in
our
community
truth
farm
who
specializes
in
providing
care
for
people
who
suffer
from
substance
use
disorder.
C
Okay,
so
we
just
have
the
timer
go
off.
We
have
to
move
on
to
the
next
speaker
so
that
we
can
make
sure
everyone
who
signed
up
to
speak
tonight
gets
an
opportunity
to
speak.
If
you
have
a
written
comment,
please
send
it
to
the
bpd
collaborative
email.
We
will
make
sure
install.
It
gets
shared
with
all
committee
members
and
is
included
as
part
of
the
public
record
in
an
interesting
time
we're
going
to
move
on
to
the
next
speaker,
and
that
is
nathan.
Hotchkiss
nathan.
Are
you
still
here
with
us
yeah?
M
Hi,
I'm
brenda
brown
and
for
the
last
44
years
we've
been
doing
black
history
month
in
the
community
black
history
in
the
community
annually
at
the
broome
county
public
library.
Every
year.
I
try
to
make
a
point
of
inviting
law
officials,
the
police,
the
sheriff,
because
I
think
it's
important
for
the
police
to
come
together
when
we
have
events
like
this,
so
that
the
public
can
see
you
outside
of
your
role,
they
can
see
you
as
coming
together
joining
with
the
community
as
a
united
front.
M
So
I
look
forward
to
continued
support,
but
I
also
want
to
remind
law
enforcement
that
where
we
started
from
where
we
were
united
every
year,
as
for
the
last
five
years,
I
started
seeing
a
decline
in
enroll
in
participation,
and
I
I
I
think
it
is
so
important
for
the
police
to
come
out
for
the
mayor
to
come
out
for
so
that,
once
again
we
can
see
a
positive
force
of
where
we
all
come
together
and
I'm
looking
forward
this
year.
We
were
virtual
next
year.
M
C
L
Okay,
hi
I'm
mae
hotchkiss,
I'm
a
resident
on
the
west
side.
I
don't
think
there's
much.
I
can
add
to
the
suggestions
that
have
already
been
made
in
terms
of
reform,
so
I
wanted
to
take
my
time
to
mainly
just
comment
on
the
process
that
the
city
has
started
with.
L
Well,
there
have
been
a
lot
of
great
suggestions
and
many
have
expressed
that
they
were
there
to
learn
and
engage
and
assist
in
the
process
of
reimagining
our
police,
and
I
would
love
to
see
that
happen.
I'd
love
to
see
the
community
have
a
stake
in
this
process,
but
this
being
the
last
opportunity
for
public
comment,
I
think
that's
a
very
limited
opportunity.
L
So,
at
the
end
of
this
meeting,
there'll
be
six
weeks
left
before
the
city
has
to
submit
their
police
reform
plan
to
the
state
and
there
isn't
a
public
outline
that
has
been
given
to
us
as
to
what
the
following
weeks
should
entail
or
will
entail
for
the
collaborative.
But
potentially
this
gives
you
two
weeks
to
analyze
all
the
statements
from
these
meetings.
You
have
two
weeks
to
draft
a
proposal
and
make
it
public,
and
then
you
have
another
two
weeks
to
revise
that
and
submit
it.
L
So
I'd
suggest
if
the
mayor
and
the
steering
committee
want
to
really
do
this
process
justice,
it's
essential
for
them
to
create
a
provision
to
add
to
the
plan
that's
being
submitted
on
april
1st.
That
would
allow
the
steering
committee
to
continue
for
another
six
months.
L
C
Thank
you
nate
next,
on
our
list
is
mary
webster
mary.
The
floor
is
yours.
N
Good
evening
my
name
is
mary
webster
and
I
live
at
12
edward
street.
Thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
participate
in
this
important
discussion
about
police
reform
and
reinvention
in
binghamton,
and
many
thanks
to
the
other
speakers.
I've
learned
a
lot
from
you.
I
was
thrust
into
community
activism
when
drug
dealing
and
prostitution
overran
my
neighborhood.
N
It's
amazing,
as
head
of
safe
streets,
I've
always
maintained
a
close
relationship
with
members
of
the
binghamton
police
department
and
have
been
grateful
for
their
service
in
the
late
1990s.
We
were
one
of
two
neighborhoods
that
were
lucky
enough
to
participate
in
a
program
called
bnet
binghamton,
neighborhood
enhancement,
team,
two
officers
exclusively
assigned
to
our
neighborhood,
patrolled
our
streets
on
bicycles.
N
N
N
N
It
is
no
secret
that
kids
learn
better
in
a
safe
and
secure
environment,
as
you
reinvent
the
binghamton
police
department.
Please
consider
a
21st
century
b-net
for
challenged
neighborhoods
like
mine,
in
which
officers
would
once
again
have
the
opportunity
to
stop
and
listen
to
people's
concerns,
who
would
build
trust
between
the
police
and
our
citizens?
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C
C
M
C
Believe
it,
it
looks
like
you're
on
mute,
I'm
not
sure
if
you
cannot
mute
yourself
or
if
we're
having
tech
issues.
C
Okay,
we
did
have
one
member
of
the
steering
committee
chris
perez
chris
is
a
social
worker
at
the
children's
home
and
we
introduced
him
at
the
last
meeting.
We
were
having
tech
issues
and
he
didn't
have
a.
He
didn't
get
a
chance
to
speak.
So
I'm
gonna
give
chris
the
floor
now
we'll
try
to
come
back
to
toleva
afterwards,
but
chris
right
now,
thanks
for
being
here
and
the.
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
Okay,
it
looks
like
we're,
we
are
still
having
tech
issues
with
chris
and
we
may
have
lost
to
leave
a
chris
if
you
want
to
send
in
your
written
comment
just
the
same
and
we
can
connect
with
you
again,
I
don't
think
it's
on
our
end.
C
C
C
Yeah,
we
I'm
sorry
chris
we're
not
we're
not
able
to
hear
you
we
can.
We
can
try
to
future
steering
committee
meeting
and
just
submit
your
comment
and
it
will
be
included
as
part
of
the
public
record
that
goes
for
everyone
here
tonight.
If
you
didn't
get
to
share
your
full
statement,
there
were
people
who
didn't
register
those
people
still
have
an
opportunity
to
send
their
statement
in
to
the
bpd
collaborative
email.
So
that's
bpd,
collaborative
at
cityofbinghamton.com
that
email
address
is
going
to
remain
open.
C
There's
the
public
survey
that
was
put
online
today.
Please
take
the
take
the
time
to
fill
that
out,
share
it
with
your
networks
and
your
neighbors.
We
want
to
encourage
as
much
response
to
that
as
possible.
C
So
I
want
to
thank
everyone
who
signed
up
to
participate
tonight
and
in
the
prior
stakeholder
meetings
that
we
held
as
a
reminder.
All
of
the
public
input
meetings
have
been
recorded
and
they're
available
online
on
the
city
of
binghamton's
website
under
the
2021
police
reform
and
collaborative
page.
C
Please
remember
to
fill
out
that
survey.
If
you
get
a
chance-
and
I
want
to
thank
you
again
all
for
taking
the
time
to
be
here
with
us
tonight-
we
do
appreciate.
O
O
C
Sure
so
it's
my
understanding,
councilman
burns,
that
the
finn
institute
is
responsible
for
sort
of
compiling
all
of
the
public
input,
both
that
we've
heard
at
the
stakeholder
meetings
at
tonight's
public
open
comment
meeting
and
that
we've
received
into
that
email
address
and
we'll
reach
out
to
individual
steering
committee
committee
members
afterwards
to
follow
up
and
set
up
next
steps.
P
Opinion
megan
megan
I'll
I'll
jump
in
here,
councilman
burns,
there's
going
to
be
a
next
another
stakeholder
meeting
next
week,
we're
going
to
email
that
information
out
we're
going
gonna
be
talking
about
the
next
steps.
All
of
that
information
will
be
related
to
the
public
city
council
will
have
its
own
public
hearing
as
well.
So
there
are
multiple
other
opportunities
for
the
public
to
comment,
people
who
were
not
able
to
register
tonight
but
still
want
to
comment
as
megan
said,
there's
a
survey
that
was
released
today.
We
encourage
everybody
to
take
the
survey.
P
You
can
email.
Your
written
comments.
City
council
has
multiple
public
comments
before
this
will
be
voted
on.
There
will
be
additional
stakeholder
meetings
after
this
meeting
concludes.
There
will
be
an
email
that
was
sent
out
to
all
the
stakeholders.
We
will
be
meeting
multiple
more
times
once
the
plan
is
submitted.
The
public
will
still
have
an
opportunity
to
review
the
plan
and
comment
on
it.
P
There
will
still
be
additional
periods
of
time
for
public
comment
that
will
be
communicated
to
the
public
as
part
of
the
next
steps
when
we
send
out
that
to
the
stakeholders
either
by
the
end
of
this
week
or
early
next
week.
But
the
purpose
of
this
meeting
tonight
is
just
a
public
comment
and
so
megan
I'm
going
to
turn
it
back
over
to
you.
So
we're
going
to
end
this
portion
of
the
meeting
and
the
stakeholders
can
look
forward
to
another
email.
Thank
you,
councilman
burns.
Thank.