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We need a robust Inspector General pursuing police accountability, and the challenges facing this role make clear that local and statewide elected officials also need to do more.
Here's what the four finalists had to say about police accountability and racial justice.
Justice would be people never being hurt or killed by police in the first place, ending systemic racism, and reallocating policing budgets to instead go to things that create real public safety. But police accountability is also necessary, and the Inspector General must be prepared to seek it.
Our judicial system is not set up to rehabilitate children and tying them up in that failed system does little to address the real issues facing our youth.
The war on cannabis, like the war on drugs overall, ruined millions of lives. We will stand by, ready to act to ensure all residents’ rights are protected.
