SECURE OUR STREETS
Putting Communities Before Criminals
PUBLIC SAFETY
- Repeal Cashless Bail and Less is More Act
- Remove District Attorneys who don’t enforce the law
- Amend Raise the Age to give judges more discretion in Adolescent Offender cases
- Give judges discretion when setting bail
- Increase penalties on looting businesses
- Enact a Law Enforcement Bill of Rights
- Hire additional police officers statewide
- Oppose any effort to Defund the Police
- Keep qualified immunity
CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES
- Set prison populations based on crimes committed instead of political calculations
- Repurpose closed correctional facilities rather than leave them abandoned, unused, and deteriorating
- Repeal the HALT Solitary Confinement Act
- Provide economic assistance to communities affected by closures
- Hire more correctional officers and improve the ratio to inmates
- Appoint a New NYS DOCCS Commissioner
- Commission a violence study in New York State prisons that would also identify additional recommended improvements
VICTIMS
- Overhaul the Board of Parole/Parole Hearing process
- Require unanimous decisions by Parole Commissioners when granting parole
- Replace members of the Parole Board who have expressed poor judgment
- Require consideration of 3rd party testimony from victims and victims’ families
- Enhance notification of Parole Board hearings
- Establish a process for victims and victims’ families to appeal parole decisions
- Require Composition of Board of Parole Commissioners to be fairly structured, including victims advocates and law enforcement