2019-20 GA special Senate race: on Crime
Kelly Loeffler:
No place for racism, but fighting for well-funded police
Loeffler: The life of every African-American is important and there is no place for racism in this country, but there are organizations whose number one goal is to defund the police, and we know that that hurts minority communities more than anyone.
And we have to stand with our men and women of law enforcement, and I will always do that. I'm fighting to make sure that we have the resources to keep our communities safe and our police departments well-funded and well-trained.
Source: Senate Runoff: 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate debate
Dec 6, 2020
Raphael Warnock:
You can affirm what officers do; hold them accountable
Warnock: I've been working on criminal justice reform. I've worked alongside law enforcement officers to do that work. We need somebody who knows how to bring people together rather than using these issues as a political point to be made.
These issues are tragic and our law enforcement officers lay it on the line every day. They have an ally with me. I just think that you can affirm what law enforcement officers do and hold them accountable.
Source: Senate Runoff: 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate debate
Dec 6, 2020
Doug Collins:
Opposes defunding or "wholesale condemnation" of police
Q: Restrict police use of force and increase public oversight?Doug Collins: Mostly no. Supports Trump executive order on "safe policing." Opposes defunding or "wholesale condemnation" of police. Stands "with our men and women in blue!"
Kelly Loeffler: No. Co-sponsored resolutions supporting "Back the Blue" and opposing calls to defund.
Raphael Warnock: Yes. Wants increased accountability and bias training and a uniform standard for the use of force. Does not support defunding.
Source: CampusElect on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Nov 3, 2020
Kelly Loeffler:
Co-sponsored "Back the Blue" resolutions, opposes defunding
Q: Restrict police use of force and increase public oversight?Kelly Loeffler: No. Co-sponsored resolutions supporting "Back the Blue" and opposing calls to defund. Critics failing "to support law enforcement at a time when they need it most."
Raphael Warnock: Yes. Wants increased accountability and bias training and a uniform standard for the use of force. Does not support defunding.
Source: CampusElect on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Nov 3, 2020
Raphael Warnock:
Police accountability and bias training, against defunding
Q: Restrict police use of force and increase public oversight?Raphael Warnock: Yes. Wants increased accountability and bias training and a uniform standard for the use of force. Does not support defunding.
Kelly Loeffler: No. Co-sponsored resolutions supporting "Back the Blue" and opposing calls to defund. Critics failing "to support law enforcement at a time when they need it most."
Source: CampusElect on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Nov 3, 2020
Kelly Loeffler:
Got to address lawlessness overtaking America's streets
We've also got to address the lawlessness that has overtaken America's streets. I have led the fight to crack down on the mobs wreaking havoc in our cities--introducing legislation to defund cities that defund the police, punish violent rioters, and
sentence convicted cop-killers to the death penalty. No candidate in my race has worked harder to put criminals behind bars--or to call out radical movements like BLM, which are inciting violence at a time when we need unity most.
Source: The Brunswick News on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Oct 15, 2020
Raphael Warnock:
We have to continue to push back against police brutality
People of color very often find themselves on the receiving end of state-sanctioned violence. And so, the response to police brutality is that there's crime in communities? There's crime in all communities. And everybody knows
that people typically commit crimes against those who are in the closest proximity to them. So this is a typical red herring. It's a distraction. And it won't stand. We have to continue to push back against police brutality.
Source: Democracy Now on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Jul 29, 2020
Kelly Loeffler:
Cut highway dollars to any state reducing police funding
Loeffler is introducing a bill that would withhold federal highway funding from states and local governments that reduce funding to law enforcement without a clear budgetary need amid the "defund the police" push from some Democrats.
The "Protecting Public Safety and Supporting Law Enforcement" Act would require the Secretary of Transportation to withhold 5% of certain highway safety funds from any state that elects to reduce funding to law enforcement.
Source: Fox News on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Jun 16, 2020
Raphael Warnock:
Mass incarceration a scar on the soul of America
He held a conference at Ebenezer on ending mass incarceration and invited the Central Park 5 (now commonly referred to as the Exonerated 5) to participate. Now adults, the then-teenagers were wrongly arrested and convicted in the 1989 beating and rape
of a white female jogger in New York City's Central Park. Warnock called mass incarceration a scar on the soul of America.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Const. on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Mar 2, 2020
Raphael Warnock:
Reform is personal, older brother sentenced to life
For Warnock, the work of helping reform the nation's criminal-justice system is deeply personal. His older brother Keith, a first-time offender, was sentenced to life in prison for a nonviolent drug-related offense in 1997. "He is a veteran of the first
Gulf War and has been a model prisoner, no easy feat amid the challenges of prison life, since his incarceration 22 years ago," said Warnock. "Yet it is the stigma of color and criminality that makes his story not as uncommon as one might think."
Source: The Harvard Gazette on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Oct 17, 2019
Raphael Warnock:
Mass incarceration about segregation, loss of voting rights
Warnock sees the crisis as an extension of slavery and the laws created to enforce segregation. He cited the work of author Michelle Alexander, who argues the "mass incarceration of tens of thousands of black men for nonviolent, drug-related offenses
and the lifelong consequences that result are constituent parts of the new Jim Crow" that denies them their right to citizenship, their right to vote, opportunity, upward social mobility, and more. "I agree," said Warnock.
Source: The Harvard Gazette on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Oct 17, 2019
Ed Tarver:
Tough on violent drug dealers and fraudsters
Mr. Tarver was the right federal prosecutor at the right time for Southeast Georgia. He was tough on crime, especially violent drug dealing, and he worked well with local and state authorities in bringing gun-toting criminals to justice.
Mr. Tarver also took a hard line against fraudsters, from those who took food out of the mouths of poor children by illegally converting food vouchers for cash to more sophisticated white-collar crooks who bilked the nation's health-care system.
Source: Savannah Morning News on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Mar 13, 2017
Page last updated: Dec 10, 2020