Rockefeller Drug Law Reform

The key elements to reducing violent crime are:

• Prioritizing prosecution of violent crime.
• Using tested preventive approaches to reduce gang violence.
• Preventing domestic violence.
• Stopping illegal gun crime.

In doing so, it is reform that must happen:

1. Restoring Judicial Discretion so judges can fashion just sentences based on consideration of the particular case and, when appropriate, sentence low-level offenders to community-based treatment.

2. Reducing Sentences to levels proportionate to those for other non-violent crimes, and to bring New York into line with national standards.

3. Expanding Drug Treatment Programs and other alternatives to incarceration for diverted low-level offenders.

4. Delivering Retroactive Sentencing Relief to currently incarcerated Rockefeller inmates serving unjustly long sentences.

• Getting Tough on Violent Crime: The best way to fight crime is to prevent it.
• Tough penalties for violent criminals and high-level drug dealers.
• Non-Violent Abusers need access to treatment.
• Working with the community to find more after-school programs.