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Residents call to reallocate police funds to youth jobs, mental‑health responders and housing
Summary
Speakers at the committee hearing urged freezing BPD budget growth, auditing police overtime and shifting dollars to youth employment, mental‑health crisis teams and expanded rent subsidies, citing BPD headcounts, overtime figures and youth‑jobs funding drops.
Boston — Multiple residents and organizers told the Boston City Council Committee on Ways and Means on March 10 that the city should redirect portions of the police budget to youth jobs, housing subsidies and non‑police crisis response.
Carlise Manana of the Youth Justice and Power Union urged an immediate freeze on Boston Police Department budget growth, an independent audit of overtime and equipment spending within 90 days and a 10% cut to the police budget this year with funds moved to civilian mental‑health crisis response teams. "A crisis…
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