Defund NBPD

If you spoke during the council meeting yesterday, we appreciate you using your voice! Despite multiple explaining their concerns about the amount of money in the budget going towards the police and the forced closing of the Lincoln Annex School (which will displace hundreds of Latinx students), the city council members have shown that they are not listening to the community.

This fight won’t stop until we get city council to listen to us. There’s another council meeting on July 1 and the official budget public hearing is on July 15. We need all of you to continue emailing, calling and sitting in during these meetings! But above all we want you guys to educate yourselves. We’ll do what we can to help by posting resources on here and on our Instagram! (graphic by lior-benz on IG)

This week we’ll be posting some studies and cases that show how NBPD treats New Brunswick residents, especially those of color. Today we‘re sharing a 2015 investigation done by ACLU. The investigation reveals that New Brunswick was one of four NJ cities where Black people were more likely to be arrested for low level offenses. Many police officers will target communities of color to fulfill ticket quotas and line their pockets at the expense of Black and brown folk. We are advocating to as a means to end unnecessary arrests that can ruin the lives of BIPOC. Thank you to .benz on IG for the graphics