For Immediate Release

#NoNewNYPD Rally & March

Community Groups & Families Condemn The City Counci's Push For 1,000 New Cops,
Want Funds Invested Into Social Programs Instead
WHAT: Rally & march against the City's push for 1,000 extra cops.
WHO: Coalition to End Broken Windows, Parents Against Police Brutality, Mothers Cry for Justice,
ANSWER Coalition, Bronxites for NYPD Accountability, Copwatch Patrol Unit, El Grito de Sunset Park,
Asociacion Pro Derechos del Confinado eta, Queens Neighborhoods United, Brite Leadership Coalition East New York, Justice for Akai Gurley, New Yorkers Against Bratton, War Resisters League, Ya-Ya
Network, Rockaway Youth Task Force, People's Power Assemblies, NYC Shut It Down: Grand Central
Crew, Brothers/Sisters In The Struggle, Stop The Urban Youth Violence, Revolutionary Student
Coordinating Committee, ISO, October 22 Coalition, Students of Union Theological Seminary,
Communities United Against Police Brutality, Bronx Coalition Against Police Brutality, National Lawyers
Guild - NY Chapter. Family members of Akai Gurley, Nicholas Heyward Jr., Kimani Gray, Shantel Davis,
Muhammad Bah, Reynaldo Cuevas
WHERE: 1 Police Plaza, followed by Brooklyn Bridge side of City Hall
WHEN: Friday, April 3rd at 6:15pm
April 3rd, 2015 (New York, NY) Activists, family members of police brutality victims and
community members condemn the City Council for it's push to add 1,000 extra cops to the NYPD
headcount. New Yorkers who continue to bear the brunt of the department's aggressive policing policies
call for an end to Broken Windows policing and the militarization of our local police.
New Yorkers most affected by Broken Windows want Safety Beyond Policing--not more cops and not
vague notions of 'community policing'. The city should instead invest the money for the 1,000 more cops,
forecasted between $94-$120 million the first year alone (and hundreds of millions thereafter), into our
high-poverty neighborhoods and into non-cop solutions to community problems. NYCHA needs to be
strengthened, our schools need resources, our youth need jobs, libraries and community centers--and
meanwhile we have yet to see justice for victims of police violence.
Led by a self-described 'progressive' council speaker, Melissa Mark Viverito, elected officials have been
irresponsibly advocating for more cops in spite of historical lows in crime ands massive protests
demanding the department be brought under control--not expanded. This was done with virtually no
debate or community input. Therefore we are compelled to loudly oppose their headcount push, which is
about politics and not public safety, but also to clearly advocate for the increased investment in our
communities that so many New Yorkers want to see.