The root causes of crime are the criminals who engage in it

Pro-death penalty; build more prisons

Mills supports the following principles regarding crime:
• Support the use of the death penalty in New York.
• Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
• Inform communities when a convicted sex offender moves into the community.
• Lower the blood alcohol content limit defining drunk driving.
• Increase penalties for crimes committed on school grounds.

End parole for repeat violent offenders

Mills supports the following principles regarding crime:
• End parole for repeat violent offenders.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
• Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
• Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation, or disability be prosecuted as hate crimes.
• Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers.