We need to make sure that we are providing alternatives to incarceration, especially for young people. We need to make sure that we are working in our schools to reduce the proliferation of drugs and guns. Reducing gun violence is absolutely key to making our neighborhoods safe. In our system of government, the president is the top civilian in charge of the military. Any effort to interfere with that right must be opposed.
Nobody is above the law, including law enforcement.
Restoring public trust has to be a goal for everybody. The promise of new city charter that will give the mayor more latitude to hire and fire department heads, to exercise executive leadership. That can effectively hold the bureaucracy accountable. Neighborhood councils are going to be essential to giving people a sense that they have a voice in city government. I think you are going to see an energized Latino vote.