Public Safety

I believe in safer schools, safer streets, and safer homes. Public safety doesn't mean just building more prisons. It means emergency preparedness, fixing our public health system, and using our tax dollars wisely to build a criminal justice system that works. We need to address recidivism, crime prevention, and increased community-based mental health and substance abuse treatment, while adequately funding our firefighters, police officers and other first responders. And we are making progress on all of these fronts.

In the legislature, I have supported the Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, voted to invest in the judicial system to remove bottlenecks, and passed laws to improve efficiencies and increase enforcement of child support obligations.