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From: <br />Marcelene Luna <br />To: <br />GRP -City Council <br />Cc: <br />Council-Giselle Hale <br />Subject: <br />Council Meeting 1.25.2021 Agenda Item 7A <br />Date: <br />Monday, January 25, 2021 1:48:31 PM <br />CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or <br />clicking links, especially from unknown senders. <br />7.A. Community Wellness and Mental Health Crisis Respond Team <br />This program that our Police Chief Mullholland put together assigning 1 Full Time mental health clinician is headed <br />to failed. With our population of over 80,000 and <br />knowing that the calls for help with mental health are increasing in our city. <br />In addition to responding to calls for service the clinician will also provide on-going training to the Redwood <br />City PD and the goals and objectives of the CWCRT <br />are unrealistic and are not supported to make the pilot program successful. <br />The police continues to be fully embedded in our community and they will do everything to maintained their power <br />over our black and brown <br />residents. After the listening sessions from the public about the mistrust of the Redwood City PD It's time to re - <br />imagine policing. This program <br />has all the traits of being performative just for the City to check off a box and say "we did something, we are not <br />racist". <br />If our City Council is truly being honest about helping our community with mental health implement policies that <br />don't start with the police and listen to community <br />in- put. <br />Thank you, <br />Marcelene Luna District 2 <br />