Do I contradict myself?
Jerome Wright, HALT Solitary
Location: Erie Basin Marina

​Partnership for Public Good Principle
Challenge 7:

Community safety. Local governments over-rely on policing while underinvesting in public and behavioral health. This makes our communities less safe and particularly harms residents who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color, with persistent racial disparities in arrests, sentencing, and incarceration. Investing in alternatives to policing, such as the use of civilian responders for incidents involving mental health and other nonviolent situations, can reduce unnecessary interaction with law enforcement. Funding should be redirected from responding to violent crime to preventing it. Community-led safety initiatives, including parent networks, violence intervention, drug user health, and restorative justice, should be recognized as proven building blocks of public safety, worthy of significant public investment.