Washington, D.C. — The Center for American Progress released a new policy framework that offers effective solutions to protect Americans from crime, achieve real accountability, and ensure swift and certain delivery of justice. CAP’s plan would make significant, evidence-based investments to hold lawbreakers accountable and prevent crime before it occurs, ensuring that every American can live, work, and send their children to school safely.
By detailing the most effective strategies to reduce crime and keep all communities safe, CAP’s plan meets the challenge to protect everyone from crime by:
- Holding lawbreakers accountable by hiring more detectives and police officers, delivering swift and certain consequences, and recruiting additional first responders
- Stopping crime by investing in crime prevention strategies, expanding community violence intervention programs, and reducing recidivism
- Disrupting illicit markets by concentrating federal law enforcement resources on the violent criminal organizations and individuals who profit from the illegal trafficking of drugs, guns, people, and stolen goods
CAP’s plan demonstrates that the country can lower crime with proven strategies that have worked to lower crime rates without placing the National Guard in our communities, as the Trump administration has done. And we know that well-trained officers can keep their communities safe, in stark contrast to the Trump administration’s use of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) forces today.
“We can lower crime even further by expanding proven strategies that are already working in communities across the country. That is why CAP’s plan focuses on real accountability and stopping crime before it happens through additional well-trained police officers and detectives, the latest in effective policing strategies, and proven violence intervention,” said Neera Tanden, CAP president and CEO. “CAP’s plan underscores that local law enforcement can keep American communities safe without the chaos and cruelty of the Trump administration’s deployment of federal forces.”
Read the report: “Delivering Accountability: A Plan To Stop Crime in Our Communities” by Neera Tanden and Nick Wilson
Read the fact sheet here.
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