2022 PA Senate race: on Crime


David McCormick: Will always back and support law enforcement officials

Crime and murder rates across American cities, including sanctuary cities like Philadelphia, are at record highs. Open border policies are flooding Pennsylvanian communities with illegal drugs like fentanyl and defund the police movements are leading to more crime in our cities--crime that is creeping into the suburbs. Dave supports securing our border to stop drug trafficking and will always back and provide support for our dedicated law enforcement officials.
Source: 2022 Pennsylvania Senate campaign web DaveMcCormickPA.com May 22, 2022

Jeff Bartos: Against "Defund the Police," police need to be fully funded

Jeff will oppose any radical attempts to 'Defund the Police.' Radical Democrats' attempts to Defund the Police are dangerous for our communities. Crime is soaring in our communities and national Democrats are actively turning their backs on our women and men in uniform. Jeff believes our police departments and law enforcement officers need to be fully funded and have all of the tools necessary at their disposal to help keep our communities safe.
Source: 2022 Pennsylvania Senate campaign website JeffBartos.com Jul 19, 2021

John Fetterman: Overhauled clemency process, recommended more commutations

Chair of Pennsylvania's Board of Pardons, John has led the fight to give second chances to non-violent inmates and free those wrongfully convicted. He has taken steps to overhaul the clemency process, including eliminating all fees associated with applying for a pardon, making the pardons application more user-friendly, and working to move the application process online. Under John's tenure, the Board has recommended more applicants for commutation than under any lieutenant governor in decades.
Source: 2022 Pennsylvania Senate campaign website JohnFetterman.com Jan 21, 2021

John Fetterman: Must expand redemption, forgiveness side of criminal justice

Says Fetterman, "Our country has mastered the punishment side of criminal justice. We must nurture and expand the redemption and the forgiveness part of that equation. If you're living your best life, and you've moved on from a really bad choice you may have made when you were young, or 10-20 years ago, you should be afforded the opportunity to fully rejoin the franchise. And I want to change that conversation."
Source: NEXTPittsburgh.com on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race Jan 14, 2021

Malcolm Kenyatta: We really do need radical reform to policing

Kenyatta supports the need to completely reimagine public safety in America. "We really do need radical reform to policing and radical systems reform. We have to ask the question, what are the police protecting? What they're protecting are really these systems of discrimination."

"We can shift resources, which we should and we're doing. We can change policies, which we should and we're doing, but ultimately we have to shift our systems, and that is a harder task."

Source: LGBTQ Nation News on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race Jun 28, 2020

Sharif Street: Allow life sentence convictions to be open to parole

Sharif's has written and introduced legislation to permit an individual sentenced to life imprisonment under the laws of this Commonwealth to be considered for parole after a reasonable amount of time. The bill creates no right to parole, so it will not allow our most dangerous inmates to go free. The Commonwealth's Board of Probation and Parole will continue to responsibly reject requests for parole from those who do not deserve it or those who present too great a safety risk to the public.
Source: 2022 Pennsylvania Senate campaign website StreetForPA.com Jun 27, 2022

Val Arkoosh: Train our police in de-escalation techniques

Val supports efforts to better train our police in de-escalation techniques, racial and implicit bias, and interacting with people in need of mental health care or substance use care, not jail time. We need to improve relationships between communities and the police by increasing diversity among our police and building forces that know the communities they serve, and we need more mental health counselors attached to our police forces.
Source: 2022 Pennsylvania Senate campaign website ValArkoosh.com Dec 19, 2021

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Candidates and political leaders on Crime:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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