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From: <br />Hannah ag)L <br />To: <br />PublicComment <br />Subject: <br />June 10 Town Hall Comment <br />Date: <br />Wednesday, June 10, 2020 6:42:09 PM <br />I have lived in Redwood City for nearly eight years now. I just bought a home here and have <br />given birth to and begun to raise both of my children here. My children will both attend public <br />school here and my son will receive disability services due to his Autism Spectrum Disorder. I <br />have always been proud of this community and I desperately want to continue to be proud of it. I <br />call on Chief Mulholland and our public officials to restructure the police department, to decrease <br />its budget and reallocate the funds to public services including the creation of Redwood City's <br />own mental health services department, which should exist. It is time to make sure that 100% of <br />the police department receives Crisis Intervention Training and that all officers coming into <br />contact with the public, for any reason, be required to wear body cameras. Since the police <br />department budget has been continually increased, budgetary restraints are not an acceptable <br />excuse for the training to not be completed or for body cameras to not be available. We have an <br />amazing opportunity right now to change things for the better, let's not waste it. <br />-Hannah Geyik <br />