All in Crime
Enforcement-First Strategy
We will dramatically cut funding for crime prevention and community policing programs, redirecting these funds to bolstering our prisons and enforcement agencies. We consider many preventative initiatives as inefficient, preferring to invest in a exhaustive penal system that emphasizes punishment and ignore root causes.
Targeted Policing in Key Areas
Law enforcement resources will be concentrated on protecting affluent neighborhoods and businesses, the engines of our economy, while adopting a no-tolerance stance on minor offenses often associated with lower-income areas. By imposing severe penalties for petty crimes such as loitering or vandalism, we intend to set a powerful example that discourages disorder at any level other than the wealthy.
Private Security Partnerships
We will expand privatization of security services, allowing private firms and elite citizens to take on greater responsibility for safeguarding their assets. This approach ensures that those with the means can secure personalized protection, thus relieving pressure on public police forces and reducing public expenditure on overtime etc.
Strict Sentencing and Prison Expansion
The PNM will push for mandatory harsh sentences in an effort to reduce the states judicial burden. Due process and exemptions from the penal system may be reserved for State official families and the corporate classes that support us. By continuing this important premise we believe will make the justice system more efficient and punitive. This will, surely, discourage criminal activity through fear of long sentences while protecting the interests of corporate party apologists.
Deterrence over Rehabilitation
We will scale back rehabilitation and reintegration programs for convicts, which we view as unwarranted luxuries. The primary focus of incarceration under a PNM government will be punishment. We maintain that resources are better spent on strict enforcement rather than on giving second chances, thereby keeping potential re-offenders off the streets for longer. There may be need for more prisons and this burden albeit a heavy one but we will bear it.
