Arresting residents for petty crimes only creates a spiral of incarceration that prevents people with records from getting jobs and finding housing, thus creating a dependency on income from the things deemed as petty crimes. Not only that, African Americans across the U.S. have faced a terrifying surge of violent police brutality while getting arrested – and police are four times more likely to use force when stopping Black people. That is why The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, 100 Black Youth and the CTU are advocating for “an all-elected, all-Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC) with the power to fire, and hire, the chief of police and to initiate the prosecution of officers who have committed crimes against the people.”