Ithaca NY unveils unarmed responders unit as human flesh bags solve crime

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Ithaca NY unveils unarmed responders unit as human flesh bags solve crime

Ithaca Ny could bring unarmed responders unit to talk down crime with words and passion

Long-awaited unarmed responders unit could debut by end of 2025

ITHACA, N.Y. — Five years after Ithaca’s landmark police reform effort first began, City of Ithaca officials are weighing plans to implement one of its core tenets: a small force of unarmed public safety officers.

At a May 15 special topics Common Council meeting, Deputy City Manager Dominick Recckio explained a potential model for the program that includes a new unit of 3-4 unarmed responders, a dispatching supervisor and a slew of new policies, response protocols and training. This was one of three options Recckio presented during the meeting to move the unarmed responders unit idea forward.

Recckio, who was hired in part to spearhead the unarmed responder project, said the proposal was influenced by stakeholder interviews, research into similar programs in other cities and previous votes by Common Council.

The proposal is far from its final state: factors like the size of the force and how its officers might be dispatched are all subject to change as council deliberates and gathers additional feedback.

During the meeting, both Recckio and Mayor Robert Cantelmo noted that the enhancement of existing programs could also take place in addition to the introduction of the unarmed responder unit, should councilmembers opt to do so.

The idea of unarmed officers was recommended in 2021 as part of Ithaca’s Reimagining Public Safety plan. Tompkins County introduced a partially unarmed response unit in 2023, but the city so far hasn’t seen much meaningful progress on implementing the recommendation.

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During the meeting, both Recckio and Mayor Robert Cantelmo noted that the enhancement of existing programs could also take place in addition to the introduction of the unarmed responder unit, should councilmembers opt to do so.

The idea of unarmed officers was recommended in 2021 as part of Ithaca’s Reimagining Public Safety plan. Tompkins County introduced a partially unarmed response unit in 2023, but the city so far hasn’t seen much meaningful progress on implementing the recommendation.

City officials have for the past few years allocated funds for an unarmed responders program in annual city budgets — most of which remains unspent as any efforts to initiate the process have so far failed to fully materialize.

Recckio said the city could begin hiring for its unarmed responders unit as soon as the end of this year, provided council members fund the initiative in the 2026 budget. The city typically finalizes its budget in November.

Recckio said the initial proposal of 3-4 responders was based on analyses of similar programs in other communities across the country.

Such programs typically start with one responder per 7,000-10,000 residents as an initial guideline. Recckio said unarmed responders in other cities often take on responsibilities such as “offer immediate behavioral health assistance, provide poverty-related support, conduct welfare and wellness checks, assist with housing needs and provide de-escalation of minor disputes.”

Recckio also presented alternative options, including a plan that would again table the idea of an unarmed responders unit in favor of spending the money enhancing existing police reform initiatives. Such initiatives include the Community Justice Center and the county’s Crisis Alternative Response and Engagement (CARE) team, which dispatches a mental health worker alongside an armed sheriff’s deputy when necessary.

Alderperson Phoebe Brown, one of the leading voices in support of police reform on Common Council, reiterated her frustration at the years-long delay in implementing the unarmed responders proposal.

“I feel that what we should do first is to apologize to the Black community, for having to wait this long for this,” Brown said. “It wasn’t the council that asked for the unarmed responders, it was community members that were very involved in the very beginning when this came out who got ignored.”

Brown expressed apprehension about the alternate proposals presented Wednesday, as she felt they wouldn’t honor the initial plan that was supported by the community, which called for five unarmed responders, among other things.

Other Common Council members agreed with Brown’s sentiment, though Fourth Ward Alderperson Patrick Kuehl said he was “elated” by the presentation and felt it represented a “concrete step” toward fulfilling the promises of the Reimagining Public Safety plan.

call unarmed police

they show up

ambush them and kill them

steal 10s of thousands in police equipment.

department cant admit idea is stupid

next day do it again

The concept of an unarmed responders unit first came about in 2021, in response to then-Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order requiring all New York municipalities to submit law enforcement reform plans in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in May 2020.

The city working group tasked with formulating Ithaca’s police reform plan originally billed the unarmed responder program as the Division of Community Solutions. They proposed the program to exist alongside the Ithaca Police Department under a proposed umbrella agency, to be called the Department of Community Safety.

The reform plan, called Reimagining Public Safety, generated nationwide headlines at the time, but several years later only parts of it have been actually implemented.

Perhaps the most substantial suggestion to have been implemented so far is the Community Justice Center (CJC), which has helped create databases of local law enforcement data, coordinate community outreach and looks like it will stay involved in the reform efforts as time goes on, was formed in 2022.

Recckio proposed the introduction of an action team collaboration with the Community Justice Center to move forward on the unarmed responders program. The team would include representatives from the Community Justice Center, law enforcement, community organizations, law enforcement diversion programs, the local emergency dispatch center and other community members.

Recckio said similar collaborative approaches, like that utilized in the development of the city’s recently extended pilot policy on homeless encampments, have found success.

“The CJC and I are calling these ‘action teams’ […] because telling people that we are ready to take action is core, people have talked about this a lot over time,” Recckio said. “There’s still a lot of talking to do, but there’s also actions to really start to take.”

Recckio said the action team will conduct further research before finalizing the policy, including dozens of interviews with people involved in the operation of community responder units elsewhere.

The total cost of the program remains unclear, though Recckio said that Ithaca’s previous annual city budgets have already allocated funds for the implementation of the unarmed responder unit, which have so far gone unspent.

Currently, there is $777,000 in unspent city funds for the unit implementation, which Recckio said would be a “significant down payment” to initiate whichever path council chooses in the coming weeks.

it's the city of Cornell University.
You think they can't brainstorm some sort of master plan to eschew their way out of that?

Canada already does this, unarmed officers with minimal training. Mostly nigs and jeets etc, cant get any White men to do it anymore.

Is it hip and cool?

College towns are truly civilization's cesspool.

No, cornell is cucked

unarmed responders

Runner here. I'm white so I dont crime, but if I did I would just run away and never get caught.

they're one of the world's most prestigious colleges.

they didn't at all say that the unarmed responders are not allowed to be equipped with tactical running shoes.
You still so sure about yourself?

I mean for them to run in the opposite direction if you choose to sneer at them

aside from all this though Ithaca is pretty cool.
you should check it out sometime.
you may get a cool souvenir like aids

This shit does not work. We tried it here:

cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/burnaby-rcmp-officers-broadview-park-1.6620704

This is a park near a school in a nice area. Homeless set up camp down there because of course, nobody could possibly prevent such a thing, impossible! So then one of them gets a wellness check from an unarmed woman officer and she gets stabbed to death.

This is fucking par for the course with this idea. Let’s take people and put them in situations where they are physically overpowered, have no backup, and no recourse, and see what happens. I’m sure it’ll work great.

The time of the cleansing tree chipper is coming.

Ithaca had a killer of a cop on their city council board, so they should know about all the ways to keep cops alive by doing the opposite of what he says. So it should be fine.
There's q junkie haven there called "the jungle"
They often have meth fires that burn huge parts of the forestry down, to keep ithaca green.
Its exotic and diverse.
A whole shlew of junkies kidnapped and murdered a guy in the last decade

Ithaca is cool.

It begins, like with Britain, when the upperclass distrust the lowerclass majority having equal access to guns so much that they won't even have let their bully boys have it.

No.

designed to fail

the only solution to crime (and poverty indirectly) is to kill criminals and keep killing criminals until they're all gone. Europe did it, but it took several hundred years to even get to a manageable point

Worst Ithaca lmao
Η μητέρα σου θα πεθάνει στον ύπνο της απόψε

This is based because cops are more likely to kill innocent non-blacks. If there's a violent nigger, the unarmed cops will simply call for an armed response to kill the nigger. Sometimes the unarmed cop will be killed by the nigger, but they are usually dysgenic golems so it's a good thing. If there's an innocent white or chink or italian, they won't be immediately shot for being light-skinned.

This will also strengthen people's racism when they have to call an armed response for every nigger call. Civilians will also be frustrated when obvious "teens" don't get an immediate armed response when it's clearly necessary.

I genuinely hope they are all women.

They'd get hurt

Have a soft spot for Ithaca. Grandparents lived there so spent summers going there and boating on Cayuga Lake. It is really liberal and I wouldn’t want to live there. I feel a lot less safe where I live now (red state) compared to Ithaca.

Who tf cares about Ithaca?

You’re fuckin retarded

Bro, you are clearly some well off autist. No one fuckin cares about New York unless it’s guidoville

What does “stakeholder” mean in this context?

Fuckin New Yorkers are such pussies.

I watch a ton of body camera footage and I can't even begin to estimate how many welfare checks turn into shootouts.

crazy Bob didn't come to work the past 3 days can you check on him

[Glock switch intensifies]

The idea of unarmed officers was recommended in 2021

Long-awaited unarmed responders unit could debut by end of 2025

It's taken 4 years to hire a few sociology grads and send them to do welfare checks in the ghetto.
How much money has been spent "planning" this?

they have a squad of Dylan so how could they lose?
they're going to talk a lot of calmness into otherwise enraged spastics

they're going to talk a lot of calmness into otherwise enraged spastics

As long as they wear bodycams that stream automatically to the internet for me to watch.

It will be a woman.
She will manage to get raped, cause the death of innocents, AND aid in the escape of the inevitably black perpetrator, probably in the patrol car.

Go ahead and screen cap it.
Sadly, this isn't even hard to predict.

Finally

Women want that.
Its the real kind of man they need

Women want that.

Sadly.
With luck, this will speed up the repeal of the 19th Amendment.

These types only encounter self hating whites and holy Jews on a regular basis. They know this won't make a dent in black crime but will instead sound really, really good at their social functions. They don't really care about black crime, they just want to feel good about themselves. They love hurting white Gentiles too. That's the sort of target the entire Left wants to see get hurt.

lots of blackos flooded into this town when the granola liberalism really took a deeper leap into identity politics faggotry.
I've seen this place, and the post obama years and post occupy wallstreet years made it a place where niggers are like carnies and this county is full of marks.
so many drive by shooting incidents of bullet damage, and methheads coming in, and all in all, criminal opportunists seeing that these weak and dopey self hating whites are the easiest fuckers to get one over on.

they do not lock any of their doors on fall creek street, thats even after breaking and entering or having unbelievably expensive bicycles or scooters ripped off.
they never learn, they never will.

This is a good idea for low level disputes though especially if an armed backup officer is only minutes away hiding parked around a corner with the lights and siren off or something

it is the local wop grift, up in auburn they have the harriet tubman industrial complex grift

allah should punish you for your faggotry

demolition man was a documentary

That’s just having an armed response with extra steps

allah

is he related to Aarron?

Im from auburn, it's definitely a corrupt wop shit hole. Lmao they spent something like $12m on that pile of shit Harriet tubman nigger memorial, meanwhile heroine addicts walk the streets and all the houses are dilapidated. The "housing projects" like Malone village and orchard street are all redone with taxpayer money while the scum of the earth live there and ruin them within 2 years, then they redo them again. All while the cops that run the city keep their own murdering kids out of jail and run up your taxes, trying to screw whites and they few middle class people left over anyway they can. Glad I fucking left that shithole town and state.

Wops* not cops, but the cops there are pathetic too

First you send in the unarmed responders unit.

Then you send in the SWAT team to retrieve the unarmed responders unit hostages. Great plan.

unarmed responders unit to talk down crime with words and passion

Will you guys go to the ghetto and break some windows to get your state mandated deconfliction blowjob?

Ithaca has these buildings for druggies called "arthause" and there are two of them. Millions or more put into them and they smear actual shit all over the hallways, destroys the building, get the fire emergency sprinklers to turn on, leave heroin needles everywhere.
ithaca is just as about as retarded as auburn or even cortland. cortland is a wastoid town too
ithaca has the pretentious gentrifier overtake though, and some of these pieces of garbage are the most smug but useless retards.
they come from such rich backrounds and buy up all of the shops for sale that the druggies and pricerises forced to vacate.
everyone here is a goofy looking fuck.

Auburn was getting pretty shady and sketchy looking with the drug shit the 12 years or so ago I had driven up that way. it reminded me of cortland a bit.
taxes here are absolute insanity.
If you aren't braindead, these people will want you fucking dead and will hivemind up on you to make you feel as uncomfortable as hell.
feels like living in a twilight zone of pod people kind of reality.