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Assembly committee hears mayor’s public safety strategy emphasizing workforce, accountability and crisis care

3229221 · May 8, 2025
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The mayor’s office presented a cross‑departmental public safety strategy with four goals — build a robust public‑safety workforce, reduce crime, increase access to crisis care, and make roads/parks/trails safer — and asked the Executive Council to monitor implementation and metrics going forward.

Thea Agnew Bemben, special assistant to the mayor, presented the mayor’s public safety strategy to the Executive Council, describing a cross‑departmental plan organized around four goals: strengthen the public‑safety workforce; reduce crime while increasing accountability; get more people into crisis care; and improve safety on roads, parks and trails. The strategy identifies department‑level owners for projects and a metrics approach the committee will monitor over the coming year.

Bemben said the mayor’s…

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