Mayor Johnson’s budget recap - AART
African American Roundtable highlighted that police were bankrupting Milwaukee in our report in 2021, yet nothing has changed and no one has seemed to listen. Police are the only department where results or metrics don’t matter. If crime is up, we need more police; if crime is down, we need more police. This logic fails to keep us safe, and this narrative fails to acknowledge what residents need and deserve.
Instead of “Neighborhood Improvement”, Participatory Budgeting
We already pay taxes to elected officials, if they don’t give us what we need then why do we think spending more taxes to create another group of people who will spend our money for us is a solution?