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Lilian Mura
Included on the Peoria Police Department’s welcome page of their website is language with a deeply painful and racist history. If the department wants to be a part of the nationwide demand for racial and social justice, they need to change their language and policing policies.
The department’s website details policing strategies designed to target Black and brown communities in Peoria. The website claims that “we must cease to tolerate the littering, loitering, loud music, profane language and other ‘minor’ violations of the laws and ordinances.” These “violations” have indisputably been historically used to target people of color for decades. These perceived crimes are not dangerous and are used to unjustly regulate the behavior of Black and brown citizens.