ReallocateWR@ReallocateW

Reallocate WR is collective of concerned citizens that support local Black and Indigenous leaders in their call to invest in community-led upstream prevention.

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Joined December 2020
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WRPS had surpluses totalling $9.3M in just three years while community organizations are starved of funding. 1/ #RefundNowWR #ReallocateNowWR #ThisOurMoneyWR
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Your voice matters: Speak at a Waterloo Regional Council Budget Input meeting: November 1st, 6 pm November 29th, 6 pm Register to Delegate: tinyurl.com/4ujktuxm 7/ Social media hashtags: #RefundNowWR #ReallocateNowWR #ThisIsOurMoneyWR
Speak at a Waterloo Regional Council Budget Input meeting: November 1st, 6 pm November 29th, 6 pm Register to Delegate Social media hashtags: #RefundNowWR #ReallocateNowWR #ThisIsOurMoneyWR

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WR is experiencing crises in housing, mental health, gender-based harm, overdose deaths, & homelessness. We are woefully lacking in the necessary supports for children, youth, seniors, & newcomers. Meanwhile the WRPS, has millions of dollars in surplus funds. #RefundNowWR
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Reallocate. Refund. Return the money to community @RegionWaterloo
Waterloo Regional Police
@WRPSToday
13 Oct 2023
The Waterloo Regional Police Services Board is encouraging members of Waterloo Region to provide their input into the Waterloo Regional Police Service’s 2024 Budget. Learn more: bit.ly/3ZHdpk0
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Bradley said he was also disappointed to see the board reject a motion from city council requesting the Police Services Board hold its budget deliberations in open session, & that the board present more detailed budget documents going forward. blackburnnews.com/sarnia/sar…

Sarnia mayor steps down from police board

Bradley said he believes the board leadership is making decisions it is not empowered to make, and which are out of the eye of the public and the media without public notice.

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The @RegionWaterloo council members are uncharacteristically quiet. We would be quiet too if constituents had 136,000 reasons not to trust us & a surplus of evidence that proved our dishonesty. #WRPSsurplusgate #ReallocateWR

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Redman, Craig and Shantz MUST resign!
ACB Network of Waterloo Region@OfAcb
13 Apr 2023
Chair Redman Councillors Shantz & Craig - PSB members, did not share complete KPMG report recommendations that could have significantly influenced the voting decisions made by their fellow Regional council members related to the police budget
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“WRPS needs more officers but could have used millions of dollars of surplus cash to help fund those hires, according to a staffing report.” Why wasn’t the entire regional council given access to the full report? Why didn’t regional council send the budget back? 1/
Cameron Dearlove@camdearlove
12 Apr 2023
Replying to @robdeutschmann @WR_Record
We were denied $36,000 to create 3 bed spaces for women experiencing homelessness and addiction. In a city that doesn’t have shelter beds for homeless women. Meanwhile: “The service needs more officers, said the report, prepared for police by consultant KPMG for about $136,000.”
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The Police Services Board lied to the community and the councillors on the PSB that are also represented on Regional Council did not appropriately and fairly fulfill their role as Regional Councillors. This calls into question the council and the vote on the police budget. 4/
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The trust between the community and its representatives have been broken. The approval of the police budget must be rescinded; the community must be put first. The police have the money they need in their own surplus #ReallocateWR
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We’re co-producing a special issue that invites people to imagine what police-free futures, community safety, & mutual aid networks could look like in Waterloo Region. Deadline: May 12, 2023 Submission details + form: tinyurl.com/3zwek4us designed by @nataliehtvuong 1/2
The background is dark teal and grainy background with people holdings signs that say JUSTICE FOR GEORGE and STAND UP AND SPEAK OUT. In white text it reads DREAMING INTO COLLECTIVE FUTURES. CALL FOR ART & WRITING. SUBMIT BY FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2023. We're looking for expressive media submissions such as visual, digital, video, and writing that imagine police-free futures and community safety in Waterloo Region. Share your creative ideas on alternatives to policing, building community-based care, and healing responses to harm. Join us in exploring what transformative justice practices and mutual aid could look like in our region. Entries will be published in a special issue of Textile Magazine. This initiative is sponsored by the African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) Network of Waterloo Region and ReAllocate WR. Below are three logos in white including; ReAllocateWR, African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) Network of Waterloo Region and Textile Magazine.

ALT The background is dark teal and grainy background with people holdings signs that say JUSTICE FOR GEORGE and STAND UP AND SPEAK OUT. In white text it reads DREAMING INTO COLLECTIVE FUTURES. CALL FOR ART & WRITING. SUBMIT BY FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2023. We're looking for expressive media submissions such as visual, digital, video, and writing that imagine police-free futures and community safety in Waterloo Region. Share your creative ideas on alternatives to policing, building community-based care, and healing responses to harm. Join us in exploring what transformative justice practices and mutual aid could look like in our region. Entries will be published in a special issue of Textile Magazine. This initiative is sponsored by the African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) Network of Waterloo Region and ReAllocate WR. Below are three logos in white including; ReAllocateWR, African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) Network of Waterloo Region and Textile Magazine.

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This initiative is a collaboration with @OfAcb and @textile_mag, stirred by Waterloo Regional Police Services' appalling and inappropriate call for children as young as 4 years old to submit art about what policing means to them. x.com/amysmoke1/status/16385… 2/2 #abolitionart
Amy Smoke@amysmoke1
22 Mar 2023
So Skye will be sending in their drawing of watching police interact with mom, terrified in the back seat, but yeah the newly named mascot and pretty diversity cruiser idea will help with their "idea of policing" 🤷🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️😡 Who comes up with this shit?? @WRPSToday
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ACB Network of Waterloo Region@OfAcb
23 Feb 2023
Every year the police that surveil, harm, and curtail the span of Black peoples lives, relegating us to a racialized underclass, are given more resources above and beyond those that would provide Black people any form or experience of justice
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