“I'm not going to cut police services when people are worried about crime and safety,” he told CTV News on Thursday ahead of announcing his platform on policing. “The police budget needs to grow, not shrink.”
He is also specifically targeting Coun. Catherine McKenney, calling them “radical change” and a supporter of defunding the police. "Everyone in our city needs to have confidence in our police's ability to keep us safe," they said. "As mayor, I will work with the new Police Chief to get us there. After a year of unprecedented tumult in our city during the convoy, we need to do the hard work of rebuilding trust and reassessing priorities."
The police services board came under scrutiny during the 'Freedom Convoy' protests, when the city's former police chief Peter Sloly resigned during the three-week occupation of the city's downtown core. Many of its members resigned during and after the protest.
No more $ to cops until we get more civilian oversight, esp after the convoy fiasco. Maybe we need to get rid of some dead wood that won’t do the job…
There used to be a police station at the corner of George and Dalhousie in the 90s, but not sure what happened...but it should be brought back
Lol. First do your office and then all politicians. To deter crime of coarse. Tho we know law enforcement won't ever hold a politician accountable.
Sounds expensive
So less freedom and more police brutality and corruption
Same old, same old. 😴
Good luck with that
Skip the cameras. Not a surveillance state.
Either you install more cameras or more police officers. We cannot afford to pay for both.
This Single Ottawa Police Officer cost tax payers 1/2 million dollars. Why do Ottawa Tax Payers put up with behaviour ?
The Police are very organized and know how to protect themselves. Powerful union that no one, especially a mayor has control over. Too many Ottawa Policemen know how to get suspended with pay- and retire early.
Wait!! No Pride flags to promote how kind and gentle we are!!! Sutcliffe is on the right path
That his platform for running for Mayor ? Oh boy … maybe greener Ottawa / Reduce pay out to Ottawa City Management / pick up the tab for lower income families for kids to play sports / I could keep going on but no further tweeting room.
Piss off, Sutcliffe. There are far better options and far better candidates.
Those are just two ideas. But have you also considered that we won’t need school resource officers if we just replace teachers with cops?
He just got my vote!
This communist wants to watch your every move as you wander throughout the market.
Mark said that on day 1 he will turn the Rideau Centre into a police station and all the staff will be sworn in as uniformed officers.
Where are the “criminals” (aka the mentally ill and addicted people, many of whom are Indigenous with no community supports) supposed to be if not in the Market? This isn’t a solution; it’s just window dressing for the bourgeoisie.
Mark Sutcliffe will sell out our city to his conservative friends. He is the last person that we need running our city. NeverVoteConservative
Terrible idea. The police station on elgin is already downtown and the market is already flooded with cops as it is.
No he won’t. He’s just another Watson type puppet who will cater to donors and developers. Nothing else will get done. He will have his own team of Watson clubbers.he’s not the way to go.
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He's probably right. The last 9 years all I've heard from politicians is reduce the budget, freeze the budget or defund the budget. The cops in Ottawa are the lowest staffed in the country. At some point cops won't be responding to anything except murder calls.
That's what we need, redundancy. Let's increase taxes with noting to show for it.
The woke wanting to turn Ottawa into New Orleans and no going back
How does that solve any problems?
Why? So they can make fascists feel welcome again?
The relationship between CTV and Sutcliffe is embarrassingly incestuous.
Gotta pay for all those Ottawa officers 👮♂️ currently suspened with pay. Does anyone know just how many Ottawa Police officers are being paid while suspended ? OttawaPolice
So far his promises seem a lot more expensive adding them all up than McKenney's, and unlike them, he's trying to claim he'll keep taxes low. So, which programs are you going to cut, Mark? How are you going to pay for all this?
Huh? 20% of the city budget already goes to the police. What are we looking at here? 25% 30% and what do we cut? Not sure what throwing more money at this will change.
Not stopping there! I’ll replace every city service with cops! Garbage trucks? NOPE! Cop trucks! Snow plows? NOPE! Cop plows! Clean drinking water? NOPE! Liquid cops!
This is the last thing we need in this city. Mark is so out of touch, it is scary.
MichaelMaidment great use of resources. Let’s further criminalize some of the most food insecure people in the city. This is who you support?
*yawn*
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We don’t need more police, we need better police.
Good idea
Only team hug a thug has a problem with this.
Increase police budget? Who could have seen that coming? Narrator: everyone. ottnews ottcity OTTpoli
Of course he would. Just out of curiosity, how much per household will this cost? Since he’s all about that sort of thing…
👏🏼👏🏼You mean like actually cleaning our streets of aggressive panhandlers, drunks, druggies, pimps & prostitutes, gang bangers & gansta’s? WHAT A CONCEPT!!!! ReFUNDPolice
I guess the station on Elgin is too far away at 3.9 km. Might as well just hire a police officer to harass everyone at every corner. Great forward thinking from this yuppie.