'Stop Cop City': Proposed DPD Training Facility Faces Local Opposition

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A new facility could help train police in southern Dallas if the idea can win voter approval at the upcoming bond election.

Tamara Neal, a third-generation Dallasite who grew up in South Oak Cliff, now lives downtown, but her southern Dallas roots remain strong. She's trying to make an impact on her former home by advocating for people to vote against proposition F in the

She’s organized something called the Stop Cop City Dallas coalition, hoping to convince enough people to vote against proposition F to stop the new facility from springing up in the largely Black and Latino community that surrounds UNT Dallas. Yafeuh Balogun, an activist, area resident and precinct chair for the Dallas County Democrats, said he, too, would like to see the money spent differently. “I feel that the proposed money should go toward having a legitimate grocery store, or helping create summer jobs for at-risk youth, or finding ways to promote financial literacy, versus putting a police academy directly in the community,” Balogun said.

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