Our budget:
- Invests in Youth Service Bureaus and Juvenile Review Boards
- Increases work opportunities for young adults
- Expanded alternatives to incarceration
- Funds state and local task forces to address gun violence and auto thefts
- Establishes an office on gun violence prevention
- Maintains our commitment to police accountability and our new clean slate laws
- Secured messaging services for inmates
These programs work to address some of the underlying causes of crime, but our police and courts need more tools to hold offenders accountable for breaking the law and keep the public safe. We passed legislation to:
- Toughen penalties for vehicle thefts
- Address lab and case backlogs
- Expand the use of GPS monitoring in some cases
- Provide more hands-on training and crisis training to police
We are working collaboratively with input from Republicans, and our law enforcement and judicial partners to develop strategies that stem crime in the interim and over the long-term. Our work doesn't end here, but we have a solid foundation on which to build. |