Issue Position: Educational and crime prevention approaches that target change in community infrastructure and environments for economic mobility

Issue Position

Crime is a public health issue. There needs to be a strategic public health approach to address crime. Both exposure to non-violent and/or violent crime, can lead to disturbances of a person's mental and physical health. I support embracing a public health approach to address the underlying issue and root cause of crime; poverty. The mistreatment of workers not being able to make a livable wage, the lack of quality and affordable healthcare, education, and housing are all root causes of crime. I also support measures of criminal justice reform that heal our communities which are stuck in generational cycles of incarceration, resource deprivation, dilapidation, and hopelessness.

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