Issue Position: Our Safety

Issue Position

Proven strategies to prevent crime: neighborhood policing, drug treatment, fixing our justice system, keeping guns out of the hands of criminals.

I believe we have to support our criminal justice system at every level if we mean to put a real dent in our drug and crime problems in New Mexico. That's why I support:

Fighting for increased funding for our public safety officers and for our court system;

Investing in mental and behavioral health programs and in drug addiction rehabilitation to strike at the root causes of crime--rehabilitate those whose crimes originate in drug abuse and mental health issues;

Common sense reform to our gun laws -- like universal background checks, prohibiting people with domestic restraining orders and abuse convictions from purchasing guns, and enforcing the laws we already have on the books.

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