Issue Position: Policing Reform

Issue Position

We need more accountability from the people who we ask to protect and serve us. We need to require mandatory reporting by officers who witness racial profiling, excessive force, and misconduct by other officers. We need an outside agency to review complaints. And we need to hold supervisors responsible for the actions of their officers.

In Moorhead, I have been working hard to open the lines of communication between the police department and members of our community, and specifically our minority populations, so that we can ensure that what happened to George Floyd never happens here.

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At a state level, we need to increase funding for licensed social workers and mental health specialists on the police force. We ask our police officers to respond to mental health crises that they aren't trained for, and that is not their fault. We also need to require implicit bias assessments in our police departments and review the behavior of officers toward those populations.

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