John,
Let’s re-imagine public safety.
Instead of criminalization, jail time, surveillance of neighborhoods, predictive policing, and “stop and frisk” policies, imagine a system designed to reduce harm that is accessible, voluntary, culturally appropriate, and community based.
This is the vision of former nurse Rep. Cori Bush’s People’s Response Act: an inclusive, holistic, health centered approach to public safety.
As a former nurse, Cori Bush views public safety through a public health lens. Non-carceral alternatives, fully disconnected from the criminal legal system apparatus, are needed to protect the health and safety of young people, people with disabilities, communities of color, and the economically disadvantaged.
Show your support for non-carceral, health, and community-based approaches to public safety by signing on as a grassroots cosponsor of the People’s Response Act today!
The People’s Response Act (PRA), would take a multi-pronged approach to improve first responses to emergency health crises by instituting a new public safety division within the Department of Health and Human Services.
This division would create a First Responders Unit to support local efforts, advance research on non-carceral, health-centered approaches, fund $11 billion in grants to community-based organizations, states, and local governments, and provide $2.5 billion for hiring first responders such as licensed social workers, counselors, and peer support.
Such an approach would ensure that public health and safety would be intertwined in order to provide effective alternatives to law enforcement, criminal courts, prosecution, mandated treatment, probation departments, family separation, and community supervision.
Bringing in health professionals to help protect our communities will ensure that people who need support will have adequate resources and aid available.
Let’s show how deep these grass roots really are! Sign on now to show support for Cori Bush’s People Response Act.
Thank you for your commitment to finding alternatives to incarceration to build stronger neighborhoods and communities.
- Amanda
Amanda Ford, Director
Democracy for America
Advocacy Fund
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