Public Safety

PUBLIC SAFETY

We need to seriously reconsider how we allocate funding for police departments. Nine out of 10 incidents where the police are called, are nonviolent. We need to redirect significant funding to social services that target specific issues like mental health, addiction, and homelessness. This is a better use of taxpayer money, and gets at the underlying causes of most preventable crime. In office, I will prioritize:

• Fight to statutorily change the standard for use of force in Minnesota
• Allow citizens to bring excessive force and equal protection cases, while circumventing the qualified immunity doctrine
• Push for creation of a state-wide database of all police misconduct
• Demand public reports and hearings on all police misconduct; not just killings
• Fight to statutorily change the standard for use of force in Minnesota