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Find the button city bedricj3/15/2023 On : San Antonio police union contract approved by City Council over some community calls to try again They wanted to see a more independent civilian review board and to remove a provision allowing officers to use vacation days instead of unpaid suspension. In one of council’s more high-profile votes this year, the trio stuck together in voting no on the police union contract with the city, saying new reforms to discipline were necessary but didn’t go far enough. “I think it’s well-intentioned, but we have to triangulate with what’s happening in the community,” Martinez said. Mayor Ron Nirenberg, right, talks with District 1 Council member Mario Bravo during City of San Antonio first budget goal-setting session of the year at the San Antonio Botanical Gardens, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. But he recognizes others have a different reality. Martinez is personally glad to see his council member seek solutions to crime outside the Police Department. They tend to gain support for classic liberal goals, such as protecting abortion access.īy bringing issues such as law enforcement resources to council, other members are forced to take a public stance they may otherwise have not, McKee-Rodriguez said. More than halfway through their first terms, their presence so far has not shifted their colleagues to the left. On : ‘You need more law enforcement’: San Antonio City Council splits over how best to cut crime Voters placed them in office partly in response to growing income inequality and an authoritarian shift in GOP politics that crystallized under former President Donald Trump. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Austin’s Greg Casar, a former councilman who’s running as a Democrat for Congress. The two new council members are part of a national wave of progressive elected officials who resemble Sen. Those in District 5 supported a business-friendly agenda in former Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales. Past voters in District 2 produced one of the city’s most conservative mayors in modern history in Ivy Taylor. McKee-Rodriguez and Castillo represent a shift in their communities. “Disagreement can be good,” Castillo said. Others say it makes sense that neighborhoods home to some of the city’s poorest, long-neglected residents want to see bold new politicians who will break with the status quo. Their image, often combative, may alienate some voters. Mario Bravo in the downtown and near North Side District 1, McKee-Rodriguez in the East Side District 2 and Teri Castillo in the near West Side District 5 were elected last year as an assumed new voting coalition, although Bravo has since taken a back seat. How much money the city spends on law enforcement is just one hot-button issue brought forth by a group of first-term City Council members who may be the most liberal in recent memory. McKee-Rodriguez wants to channel tax dollars to social services instead of hiring more police officers to attack the roots of crime. Josie Norris, San Antonio Express-News / Staff photographer “I know that’s frustrating to a lot of individuals who live in the neighborhood who do want police presence,” Martinez said.Īssistant City Manager David McCary, left, speaks with District 2 Councilperson Jalen McKee-Rodriguez, right, during the fourth public meeting regarding the Brackenridge Park Project at the Witte Museum in San Antonio on June 14, 2022. Yet McKee-Rodriguez also is council’s most ardent opponent of increasing the size of San Antonio’s police force.įor some Dignowity Hill residents, that’s a problem.
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