Implement restorative justice and end mass incarceration.

• Eliminate the use of fines and fees to fund local governments, and end probation revocation

for unpaid fines and fees.

• Close private prisons and correctional agencies.

• Further the Tucson Police Department’s efforts to increase public involvement in law

enforcement through community policing.

• Establish independent Police Auditors in law-enforcement departments who can operate

without political interference.

• Restore judicial discretion in sentencing by eliminating mandatory sentencing laws.

• End the cash bail system.

• End solitary confinement.

• Automatically restore convicted felons’ voting rights after they complete their sentences.

• Expunge marijuana-possession charges and convictions.

• Eliminate the death penalty.

• Strengthen law enforcement accountability through meaningful public review and stricter

personnel practices.

Re-allocate portions of police budgets to entities that lift people out of poverty,

unemployment, ill health, and food, housing and educational insecurity.

• Create unarmed community-response departments to handle assistance calls involving

people experiencing physical and mental-health crises.

• Route assistance calls through dispatchers outside the police department trained in crisis

management, mental health, first aid and substance disorders, who would determine the

appropriate responding agency.

• Conduct thorough background checks and mental-health screenings on all police applicants.

Reject applicants terminated by law-enforcement agencies or who resigned in lieu of

termination. Reject applicants allied with white-supremacist groups.

• Require all officers to complete a two-year academy program in community-specific

linguistic and cultural training, implicit and explicit bias, de-escalation, conflict resolution,

and protecting every community member’s wellbeing.

• Prohibit racial profiling in policing. Prohibit pre-textual stops and “no-knock” warrants.

• Create independent civilian oversight boards with authority over officer discipline and

termination.

• Remove police departments’ military-style weapons and equipment.

• Ban police use of physical and chemical restraints that hamper breathing.

• Equip all police officers with body cameras that officers cannot turn off while responding to

a call. Create and administer unambiguous punishments for officers who knowingly violate

this policy.

• Require police agencies to develop comprehensive use-of-force policies, mandating that

officers always use minimal force to subdue individuals.

• Require police departments and their personnel to reflect the diversity in the communities

they serve.

• Abolish the qualified immunity doctrine, thereby enabling people to hold police officers

liable for violating a person’s constitutional rights.

There is no greater responsibility bestowed upon Government than the duty of protecting and serving its citizens. In Arizona, it is the Department of Public Safety (DPS) that finds itself at the forefront of this duty.

The COPS Office publishes materials for law enforcement and community stakeholders to use in collaboratively addressing crime and disorder challenges.

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