REMARKS
Council Member Althea Stevens Explains Her Vote In Support of the How Many Stops Act
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Council Member Althea Stevens refutes claims that the How Many Stops Act overburdens police officers, stressing the role of technology and community safety.
She emphasizes the importance of tracking interactions and argues for the act as a measure to make communities safer, sharing insights from her 20 years of work with youth.
Speaker 0
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Stephens.
Speaker 12
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A moment to explain my vote.
Speaker 2
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Let me go ahead.
Speaker 12
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There's two things that I just wanna make clear.
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Officers are already tracking this information.
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So we have to stop pretending like they're not doing it.
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It is happening.
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It is already taking place, and so they can do it either.
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During the interaction or after, So let's stop saying that it's going to overburden them because it's not.
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And we also have technology.
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So the next thing we need to also make sure that we're understanding If an officer is doing investigation and they're asking for basic information, wouldn't we want them to track that anyway?
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How do they go back if they need to go back and get more clarifying information?
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So saying that we don't want our community safer is ridiculous.
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This is actually a about making our community safer.
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I worked with kids for 20 years who would often talk about how they would be stopped checked all these things for walking down the street.
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People who are closest to this problem actually have the answers.
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So maybe, let's listen to them and not what we think we know because we live it every single day.
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And with that, I will I to keep my everyone safe, every black environment across the city, not just some.
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Thank
Speaker 8
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you.
