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Agenda Item
15-4442 Bill 71
Amending the 2021 General Fund by funding the Public Safety Analyst position currently budgeted for One ($1) Dollar in the Police Department budget.
The Allentown Police Department already receives 1/3 of the entire city budget. It's absurd that a department with so much money should receive even more for a position to study itself. There are number of scholars and institutes in the Lehigh Valley that could conduct this research if the department was truly interested in transparency and sharing it's data. Vote against this, let existing experts in the field of public safety have access to APD's data, don't build more bloat in the department.
The Allentown Police Department already receives 1/3 of the entire city budget. It's absurd that a department with so much money should receive even more for a position to study itself. There are number of scholars and institutes in the Lehigh Valley that could conduct this research if the department was truly interested in transparency and sharing it's data. Vote against this, let existing experts in the field of public safety have access to APD's data, don't build more bloat in the department.