On February 22, 2022, Alana Byrd, Campaign Manager at People For the American Way, published the following opinion piece in The Ithaca Times:
In response to the city of Ithaca’s Reimagining Public Safety plan, the Ithaca Police Benevolent Association (PBA) has been waging war, and disinformation is their primary ammunition.
The PBA is attempting to scare the public by claiming that reforming our police department has caused crime to go up, and that reimagining public safety would make us all unsafe.