The Santa Monica Daily Press provided candidates with three opportunities to address readers this year. Candidates were asked to fill out a short form survey, provide responses to written questions and invited into the Daily Press office for a one on-one interview about their candidacy. Candidates were given three questions and allowed to answer any or all of them as they saw fit.
Every candidate who spoke to the Daily Press brought up Public Safety as a top priority. What has driven this subject to the forefront of local politics and what are you going to do to make residents feel safe in their public spaces?
Our post pandemic world has been turned upside down by organized crime, human trafficking, and increased lethal drug distribution. The relaxed conviction strategies that have been enacted in an attempt to enact equitable justice reform is not taking into account the career criminals. Leading to the increased crime rates without accountability.
My top two priorities for public safety are;
1. The increase of our police force and police presence in our business and residential areas is essential to reclaiming our city and ensuring that our communities cries for safe streets are being answered.
2. The relocation of the needle & glass pipe distribution program.We must continue to advocate for this program to be restructured and relocated at every level of governance possible until we get results. To ensure the safety of one of our most vulnerable populations, our children.
"No country can truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens." — Michelle Obama
