Santa Rosa PD Pay Raise

by PACH

Sun, Dec 7, 2014 5:43PM

212 Words The PACH posted an article on September 10th, “Santa Rosa PD Gets Pay Raise of 9.5% Over 3 years”. It talks about a serious accusation in which this multi-year deal can’t be afforded by the city’s finances. According to Mayor Scott Bartley, he thinks it’s a reasonable cost to upgrade our police raise but people don’t agree with all 63 deaths by police in Sonoma County since 2000. From the article I agree with the fact that this area gets a pay raise and I will explain below. The fact that they are getting paid an increase is simply because they haven’t done much harm like other sectors in this area. Santa Rosa has only caused five deaths since 2000 and in the past seven years the deaths have gone down. 2000 to 2007 Sonoma county was accounted for 12 more deaths but mainly from the sheriff department. From 2008 to recent they have made a change for the better and I believe this is somewhat why the pay raise is in affect. PACH exists to document police abuse, and to help survivors of Police abuse find safety and support. PACH participants in community based civil rights education.

http://pachline.org/santa-rosa-pd-gets-pay-raise-of-9-5-over-3-years/

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§Abolish the police department, military, prison-punishment, capital punishment

by Real change

Sun, Dec 7, 2014 7:15PM

The police are simply the armed thugs of the ruling capitalist class who exist to terrorize the workingclass, the 80% of us who sell our labor for less than $80,000 a year, so we do not fight for decent wages, hours and working conditions. They are not social workers. The money spent on the police should be transferred to all the social services for job training for decent paying jobs, medical care, and all other social services people need. That and legalizing all drugs so as to eliminate their street market value is the only way we can get rid of street crime.

As to the other armed thugs, the military only exists to maximize the profits of the capitalist class, the greatest profits being in oil and munitions, of which the military is the biggest user, and is by the way, the biggest polluter. The prisons do not offer job training and rehabilitation; they are torture centers and must be shut down. Capital punishment is barbaric and must be abolished, as it has been in most of the world, not just the industrialized world.

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