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POLICE REFORM: Alameda County Urban Shield/UASI Task Force
For six years, Bay Area activists have pushed to repurpose Homeland Security disaster preparedness funds away from the hyper-militarized training exercise Urban Shield. Finally the Alameda Board of Supervisors agreed and convened a task force to end “Urban Shield as we know it”. The task force has provided dozens of recommendations to do exactly that.
There is lots of pushback and lots more coming, according to the SF Chronicle, which announced the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department is “primed for battle. But this is our taxpayer money to protect us and help us recover from disasters like catastrophic wildfires. We get a say in how it is spent.
You can view some of the proposed recommendations here and here. The recommendations follow years of problems with racial profiling, right wing vigilantes, and environmental abuse. Your physical presence on the 26th is important (look out for an event invite), but you can also use this easy action alert to tell the Supervisors not to buckle to the pressure and really change Urban Shield. Now:
After 5 years, Urban Shield may end on February 26 …. with your help
Since 2013, the Bay Area has been trying to transform Urban Shield from a highly militarized SWAT competition and weapons expo into a community-focused safety and resilence exercise
And now we are almost there.
The second Alameda County task force has completed its work and issued a long and thorough list of recommendations that include ending the weapons expo that features spying and crowd control gadgets, ending the violent SWAT competition to focus on training other first responders, and.directing $5 million in new funding to health and social services.
But we need to make the adoption of these recommendations by the Supervisors a reality – and that means countering the Sheriff’s Department pressure with our own.
Take action right now.
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And join us at the Alameda Administration Building on February 26 at 10:45am to end Urban Shield.
Board of Supervisors – Alameda County
Alameda County Administration Building
1221 Oak Street, 5th Floor
Oakland
Tuesday February 26 10:45AM Meeting Start
More Info About Urban Shield
2018 Notes From The Last Urban Shield As We Know It
2017 Urban Shield Community Report Card from the Stop Urban Shield Coalition
2017 ICE At Urban Shield Photo Gallery
Oakland Privacy Recommendations to Task Force