Reimagine Public Safety

Our country’s punitive criminal justice system is racist, classist, and doesn’t make us safer. Our incarceration rates are among the highest in the world, and we fail to provide adequate re-entry services. It’s time to shift to a rehabilitative system of justice that addresses the root causes of crime, decriminalizes poverty, and incarcerates far fewer people.  We need to decarcerate our communities and reimagine public safety as a concept rooted in the health, safety, and prosperity of us all.

 

Our Vision & Core Policies

End the School to Prison Pipeline

  • Get School Resource Officers out of schools

  • Increase federal funding so that schools can properly staff counselors, therapists, and nurses

  • Provide wraparound services to students and their families

Support Current and Formerly Incarcerated Folks

  • Remove the exclusions that prevent formerly incarcerated people from receiving government assistance

  • Restore the right to vote for all currently and formerly incarcerated people 

Decarcerate our Communities

  • Legalize marijuana and expunge the records of people convicted of federal marijuana crimes

  • Decriminalize all drug use and treat substance abuse as a public health issue, not a carceral one

  • Decriminalize sex work & fully repeal SESTA/FOSTA

  • Abolish cash bail

  • End mandatory minimum sentences

  • Emphasize rehabilitation, restorative justice, and community corrections in our policy

End Police Brutality

  • Divest funding from police departments and invest in community-based services

  • Curtail the power of DHS

  • Ban military gear for police (end the 1033 program and the 1122 program)

  • Require stronger background checks to ensure that white supremacists aren’t infiltrating law enforcement

  • Enforce standards that make sure cops who commit brutality are fired

  • Establish a national database to guarantee that those cops who are dismissed cannot be hired elsewhere

  • Ensure transparency & accountability through programs such as: Independent Community Review Boards, FOIA, and a national violence incident database

  • End qualified immunity