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    Earlier this month, the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) tabled its budget for 2019, which includes a "net incremental operating budget increase of $12.2 million", amounting to a "police tax increase of 3%" from 2018. The OPS budget also includes plans to raid municipal reserves for one-time funding allocations to off-set their budgetary shortfalls, a measure which Mayor Jim Watson has proposed should be limited so that more investments can be made in things like affordable housing. The Criminalization and Punishment Education Project (CPEP) is joining others in the community who are demanding the City of Ottawa invest more in young people, families and communities, not police to enhance safety. To this end, CPEP has launched a #NOPE / No Ottawa Police Expansion campaign to raise awareness about alternative ways to spend $12 million in 2019 to build safer and healthier communities across our city, which are documented in this zine.

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    Earlier this month, the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) tabled its budget for 2019, which includes a "net incremental operating budget increase of $12.2 million", amounting to a "police tax increase of 3%" from 2018. The OPS budget also includes plans to raid municipal reserves for one-time funding allocations to off-set their budgetary shortfalls, a measure which Mayor Jim Watson has proposed should be limited so that more investments can be made in things like affordable housing. The Criminalization and Punishment Education Project (CPEP) is joining others in the community who are demanding the City of Ottawa invest more in young people, families and communities, not police to enhance safety. To this end, CPEP has launched a #NOPE / No Ottawa Police Expansion campaign to raise awareness about alternative ways to spend $12 million in 2019 to build safer and healthier communities across our city, which are documented in this zine.

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    #NOPE / No Ottawa Police Expansion - February 2019 Zine

    Uploaded by

    Justin Piché
    Earlier this month, the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) tabled its budget for 2019, which includes a "net incremental operating budget increase of $12.2 million", amounting to a "police tax increase of 3%" from 2018. The OPS budget also includes plans to raid municipal reserves for one-time funding allocations to off-set their budgetary shortfalls, a measure which Mayor Jim Watson has proposed should be limited so that more investments can be made in things like affordable housing. The Criminalization and Punishment Education Project (CPEP) is joining others in the community who are demanding the City of Ottawa invest more in young people, families and communities, not police to enhance safety. To this end, CPEP has launched a #NOPE / No Ottawa Police Expansion campaign to raise awareness about alternative ways to spend $12 million in 2019 to build safer and healthier communities across our city, which are documented in this zine.

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    NO

    OTTAWA
    POLICE
    EXPANSION
    CRIMINALIZATION AND PUNISHMENT EDUCATION
    PROJECT

    A volunteer group of students and professors,


    people directly affected by criminalization and
    punishment, and other concerned community
    members. We conduct research and advocacy
    aimed at reducing the use of imprisonment and
    improving conditions of confinement.

    Follow us on twitter: @CPEPgroup

    Email us: cpep.action@gmail.com

    This zine was created by members of CPEP


    In February 2019, the Ottawa Police
    Service tabled its budget for 2019,
    which includes a net incremental
    operating budget increase of $12.2
    million and a one time increase of
    $2.4 million.
    CPEP and other community
    stakeholders are alarmed by this
    budget increase request.

    We do not need more police in


    our streets, we need more
    investments in community-based
    measures.

    With the proposed $12 million


    increase, the City could invest in
    at least one of the following
    measures instead:
    RESTORATIVE
    JUSTICE

    JOBS
    HEALTH
    FAMILIES AND YOUTH

    HOUSING
    Contact Mayor Jim
    Watson and Ottawa
    city councillors and
    demand No Ottawa
    Police Expansion

    jim.watson@ottawa.ca
    613-580-2496

    110 Laurier Avenue West


    Ottawa, ON
    K1P 1J1

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