Public safety is centered around community safety. Community safety is ensuring that our communities have equity public healthcare, essential resources for schools & businesses, and empowering families. Community safety focuses on increasing funding for programs addressing societal issues while working to decrease the need for policing and mass incarceration.

The root of the community is unity. We will incorporate restorative justice practices focused on relationship building, provide healing spaces for survivors of state-sanctioned & intra-community violence, and trauma-informed mentoring. Residents will collaborate with, business owners, community centers, and public officials to create a Restorative Justice Community Hub focused on mental health services, know your rights training, civic engagement workshops, and reentry programs.

We recognize poverty is violence. The crime increase is a result of unaddressed poverty in predominately Black & Brown communities not adequately equipped to erase poverty. Instead of policing and prison to solve poverty, we will create and maintain spaces for community hubs, skill & workforce development, and improvements to our local institutions (small businesses, grocery stores, hospitals, public housing, and etc.)

Our local governments need to create a system to fully fund, equip, and sustain mental health organizations and institutions. This system will advocate for funds to create trauma & mental health centers, provide healing for victims of violence & marginalized communities, and train social workers, clinical workers, and therapists to be first responders to mental health crises.

Our plan includes a sit for everyone at the center of the decision-making table. We will ensure the community’s input is the compass to direct CPD’s policies, practices, and strategies. Community input is the main character in creating a new system of police accountability to meet the needs and priorities of the community.

Our goal is to end police brutality and eliminate discriminatory practices by creating a Community Task Force. A Community Task Force provides residents an opportunity to determine who police their community and how their communities are policed. Residents will also be a part of the research process and spearhead discussions on CPD’s policies & crime data, specific research topics, and other community-enriching initiatives.