Tools to Promote Safer Communities

While other states reduce incarceration and crime, Oregon is on track to spend $600M on new prison space

The policy changes that reduce prison expansion are critical, but without investing in our local public safety infrastructure, we will not actually be strengthening Oregon’s approach to crime and accountability in sustainable ways.

The landscape around criminal justice and public safety issues is changing. We all want to live in safe communities. The question becomes, how do we best address crime and maintain safety.