Issue Position: Criminal Justice Reform

Our criminal justice system is broken. We need urgent reform that stops mass incarceration, and eliminates the profit incentive for incarceration by closing private prisons. Even though black and white Minnesotans use drugs at a similar rate, Black Minneapolitans are nearly 9 times more likely to be arrested for low-level drug offenses. We should treat drug addiction as a public health issue. We need to improve police training and accountability, and standardize the use of body cameras. We must enact common sense gun safety reform like universal background checks.

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