Issue Position: Safer Streets

Issue Position

A kindergarten student at the elementary school both of my daughters attended was recently shot and killed in front of his parents' food truck in Oakland. Last year, I attended the candlelight vigil in Oakland of a 3-year old child who was shot and killed in crossfire while in a stroller with his parents in the middle of the day in a bustling retail district. This has to end.

Our first priority must to be to get teenagers and young adults to choose schools or work over violence and gangs. That is why as Vice Mayor I supported no cuts to street level services for police and firefighters and will continue to fight for safer communities.

As Assemblymember, I would leverage the resources of the state to ensure sufficient, visible and proactive community policing in neighborhoods to deter and stop crime.

I am proud that every organization of police, firefighters and deputy sheriffs in Oakland, Alameda and San Leandro have endorsed my campaign for Assembly.

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