PUBLIC SAFETY:

A SYSTEM THAT ACTUALLY WORKS

Public safety is not just about police, prosecutors, treatment programs, or social services individually. It is about whether the entire system works together.

Today, too often it doesn't. Officers make arrests that never reach booking. Organized sex trafficking operates openly. Repeat theft is treated as insignificant even as it damages businesses and neighborhoods. And while we ask a lot from law enforcement, accountability and performance have to be part of that conversation too.

My approach is straightforward: enforce reasonable rules, protect victims, give people a real path to change, and hold every part of government accountable for results.

 

mY solution

FIX THE JAIL MEDICAL INTAKE

Properly staff jail medical intake, create clear protocols for intoxicated arrestees, and develop secure stabilization alternatives when someone truly needs medical care before booking. We should also publicly track medical declines, officer hours lost, and what ultimately happens in each case.

Issue #1

the Broken Intake Process

Right now, an officer can arrest someone, only to spend hours at a hospital because the jail cannot medically accept them. In some cases, the person simply walks away before ever being booked.

That is bad for public safety, expensive for taxpayers, and a terrible use of limited police resources.

 

my solution

sAFE hARBOR FOR tRAFFICKED WOMEN & pROSECUTION OF THE piMPS

Aggressively investigate and prosecute traffickers, while expanding safe housing, treatment, legal help, and other exit services for victims. Contact with law enforcement should become a doorway out of exploitation, including a clear pathway to eliminate prostitution-related criminal records for trafficking victims.

issue #2

Sex Trafficking

The continued visibility of commercial sexual exploitation along Aurora is appalling. Our focus should be overwhelmingly on the people profiting from exploitation: traffickers, pimps, organized networks, and repeat buyers.

At the same time, women being trafficked need a genuine way out.

 

MY solution

dIVERSION, THEN CONSEQUENCES

Use diversion and restitution where appropriate for first-time offenders, but create escalating consequences for repeat offenders and aggressively pursue organized theft and fencing operations. Compassion can explain someone's behavior without requiring society to simply accept it.

issue #3

“PETTY” THEFT ISN’T PETTY

A single stolen item may be relatively inexpensive. Thousands of thefts are not.

Chronic theft raises costs, hurts workers, forces businesses to spend more on security, makes stores less accessible, and can eventually drive businesses out of neighborhoods altogether. More fundamentally, consistently ignoring basic laws frays the social contract.

 

issue #4

ALIGN PAY AND ACCOUNTABLITY

We ask police and deputies to perform difficult work, make rapid decisions, and exercise enormous authority. We should recruit excellent people, train them well, pay them competitively, and give them the staffing and resources needed to succeed.

But support and accountability belong together.

my solution

Build a HIGH-FUNCTIONING HIGH ACCOUNTABLITY System

Invest in recruitment, training, supervision, and officer wellness while strengthening early-intervention systems that identify troubling patterns before they become serious misconduct. Excellent officers deserve our support. Poor performance and misconduct deserve meaningful consequences.

 

The Goal: Restore the Social Contract

Public safety should not be reduced to a choice between enforcement and compassion. We need both.

Prevent → Intervene → Enforce → Stabilize → Treat → Hold Accountable → Rebuild

Rules should matter. Victims should matter. People struggling with addiction or exploitation should have a genuine path toward recovery. And every part of the public-safety system should be expected to produce measurable results.