Jacob Trewe: The Budget Committee passed a measure that by the end of October, we’d have a presentation from the city manager about how we’d fund $2.5 million worth of alternative response funding such as CAHOOTS, including from the community safety payroll tax.
Presenter: The Eugene City Council is asked to bring back CAHOOTS—its nationally-recognized mobile crisis response. With public comment Oct. 27, Kamryn Stringfield:
Kamryn Stringfield: EPD claims they don’t have enough officers to address public safety issues and crime in Eugene. How much of that is because of the loss of CAHOOTS in April? Please, if you’d actually like to address public safety and free up officers to tackle more serious criminal activity, schedule a work session to get Willamette Valley Crisis Care fully funded and back on the streets of Eugene.
Eugene was brought up in the New York City mayoral debate by Zohran Mamdani, not because of our magical Flock system that captures a handful of criminals, but because of CAHOOTS and its real proven effects for our community…