- ADVERTISEMENT - Organizers released the People’s Budget at a June 22 press conference calling on the city to invest in housing, a right to counsel for renters, new facilities for the city’s seniors and more money for translation services, among other demands. To do that, a coalition of groups including Black Lives Matter Long Beach, Long Beach Forward, Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition and Long Beach Residents Empowered, said the city should reinvest funds from the LBPD and put them into community-serving programs. “We are all calling for a defunding of the police and that’s the opposite of what happened in this budget,” said Audrena Redmond, an organizer with Black Lives Matter Long Beach.