End 80 Years of Cincinnati Police Department Cruelty
Commitment to the systemic change in our community that is long overdue.
80 years is long enough. We have waited for the humanity of Cincinnati Police Department to care about our children, our seniors, and the disruption to our households that never materialized. We have patiently insisted to receive the justice that has been delayed and gone unheard for generations.
There has been no discussion of recompense or repair for the economic, environmental, mental, and psychological damage that has been inflicted upon the residents of the Village. It is our belief that no negotiations should, under any circumstance, advance without deliberate, explicit, and restorative reinvestment into the communities that have been harmed by this 80-year violation of environmental, civil, human, and property rights by the Cincinnati Police Department and other federal agencies.
Shooting Range Demands
1. The CPD shooting range that has terrorized our communities, Lincoln Heights, Woodlawn, Lockland, Evendale, and Wyoming, must immediately be relocated to cause no further harm to residents. This can be a temporary move initially, but the gunfire must be discontinued immediately.
2. Studies should be commissioned to determine the economic, environmental, and mental/public health damages that have been inflicted over the past 80 years that the shooting range has been in operation. This should inform the future community benefits agreement with General Electric and/or the cities of Evendale and Cincinnati.
3. No negotiations should be held without first having earnest, explicit, and transparent conversations detailing the anguish of the communities and a deepened understanding of the trauma that has been caused. This includes, but not limited to, an examination of harm caused to businesses, development, and behavioral/mental health challenges of the communities.
4. Reparations should be provided, at minimum, in the form of CPD Asset Forfeiture Grants to the communities that have been harmed, beginning with Lincoln Heights and Woodlawn as the most negatively impacted communities, to increase public health and recreation resources to our communities. These funds should be provided for 18 years from the date of the last bullet being fired by a CPD officer.
5. Reparations should be provided, at minimum, to Princeton City School District to ensure that additional social-emotional programming and mental health resources are available to expand services to its youth from Lincoln Heights and Woodlawn who have behavioral or mental health issues. These funds should be provided for 18 years from the date of the last bullet being fired by a CPD officer.
6. City of Cincinnati and the CPD Fraternal Order of Police should create a series of townhall meetings to discuss the shooting range with our community stakeholders to drive honest conversation and hear input from those who have been harmed.