Rochester’s Police Accountability Board has submitted its final recommendations to Rochester’s Working Group on Police Reform, the body working to develop the state-mandated police reform plan for Rochester.
The PAB says it held numerous meetings, spoke with hundreds of people an listened to what they had to say in making these recommendations:
(1) spend at least $10 million to fund alternative first responder systems this year;
(2) create full transparency over the use and development of these new first responder systems, including those run out of the Office of Crisis Intervention Services;
(3) use social workers & other non-police personnel as first responders to evictions;
(4) provide proper support, financial and otherwise, to the organizations in our community working over the long-term to rewrite Rochester’s public safety blueprint; and
(5) fund any new RPD trainings or programs by reallocating existing RPD funding, rather than expanding the RPD’s budget.