Issue Position: Neighborhoods

Issue Position

Will believes that all of our families and seniors should feel safe in their communities. The most effective path to safer streets is with good community-based policing, more outreach programs for at-risk youth, and active community involvement. As our next state representative, Will will engage local families, police, and other community leaders to combat the damage done to our neighborhoods in recent years and help keep our youth away from gangs and violence.

What Will's going to do:

Support and encourage community policing efforts, so that our officers can work more closely with our neighbors and community leaders

Offer counseling and supportive services to first-time, non-violent teenage offenders to keep them away from gangs and help them stay in school

Fight foreclosures by making banks sit down at the table and negotiate manageable mortgages with homeowners, keeping families in their homes and communities intact

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