Safe Neighborhoods

Our communities deserve to be safe. Nancy will fight the budget cuts that drain city resources, keeping our cities from employing community policing and other effective strategies to fight crime and stop the violence.

Nancy will enact legislation to provide intervention and services that redirect young first time offenders away from the juvenile justice system and into support programs that provide alternatives and help them finish school.

Stopping the violence and supporting our communities needs to be a partnership between the state, our counties, our cities, our schools and our community agencies. As a Berkeley Councilmember in the 80's Nancy worked with Loni Hancock to establish the East Bay Safety Corridor, a partnership that worked with communities up and down the I-80 corridor coordinating state and other resources to improve public safety and expand community support services. Recently Assemblymember Hancock restarted this effort, Nancy is committed to deploying state resources to continue and enhance the East Bay Safety Corridor. 

Reversing high school drop out rates is an essential component to supporting our youth and lowering crime. Nancy will work to expand school programs to provide career technical and vocational training in addition to a college preparatory curriculum.