Issue
Criminal Justice, Policing & Public Safety
Officials on Criminal Justice, Policing & Public Safety
| RDonald J. Trump | 20 | 20% | 1 |
| DJoe Biden | 17 | 12% | 1 |
| RKay Ivey | 4 | — | 3 |
| RBill Lee | 3 | — | 3 |
| RShelley Moore Capito | 2 | 100% | 2 |
| RJoe Lombardo | 2 | 100% | 1 |
| RMike Dunleavy | 2 | 100% | 1 |
| RJeff Landry | 2 | 100% | 2 |
| DJanet Mills | 2 | 100% | 2 |
| DCory A. Booker | 2 | 50% | 2 |
| RBrian Kemp | 2 | — | 1 |
| DJosh Stein | 2 | — | 1 |
| RGreg Gianforte | 2 | — | 2 |
| DJosh Shapiro | 2 | — | 2 |
| RGreg Abbott | 2 | — | 1 |
| DBob Ferguson | 2 | — | 1 |
| RDavid McCormick | 1 | 100% | 1 |
| DMaria Cantwell | 1 | 100% | 1 |
| RSteve Daines | 1 | 100% | 1 |
| RDan Sullivan | 1 | 100% | 1 |
| DMargaret Wood Hassan | 1 | 100% | 1 |
| RBrad Little | 1 | 100% | 1 |
| RKevin Stitt | 1 | 100% | 1 |
| RPhil Scott | 1 | 100% | 1 |
| RRoger Marshall | 1 | 100% | 1 |
| DRichard J. Durbin | 1 | 100% | 1 |
| RTate Reeves | 1 | 100% | 1 |
| RMarsha Blackburn | 1 | 0% | 1 |
| RRick Scott | 1 | 0% | 1 |
| DMark R. Warner | 1 | — | 1 |
| DJacky Rosen | 1 | — | 1 |
| RJon Husted | 1 | — | 1 |
| RBernie Moreno | 1 | — | 1 |
| RKelly Ayotte | 1 | — | 1 |
| RSarah Huckabee Sanders | 1 | — | 1 |
| RMike Braun | 1 | — | 1 |
| DAndy Beshear | 1 | — | 1 |
| RMike Kehoe | 1 | — | 1 |
| DMichelle Lujan Grisham | 1 | — | 1 |
| DKathy Hochul | 1 | — | 1 |
| RKelly Armstrong | 1 | — | 1 |
| RMike DeWine | 1 | — | 1 |
| RSpencer Cox | 1 | — | 1 |
| RPatrick Morrisey | 1 | — | 1 |
| DTony Evers | 1 | — | 1 |
| RTom Barrett | 1 | — | 1 |
| RThom Tillis | 1 | — | 1 |
Positions on record
- Tom BarrettStated position
Support law enforcement funding and oppose all efforts to defund police and prosecutors.
View position & sources → - David McCormickStated position
Get tough on crime by ensuring law enforcement have the tools, funding, and legal protections they need to do their jobs and protect their communities.
View position & sources → - Rick ScottStated position
Re-fund and respect the police and increase penalties for theft and violent crime.
View position & sources → - Marsha BlackburnStated position
As governor, Blackburn commits to remove what she calls Soros-funded district attorneys and to oppose efforts to defund the police, saying keeping communities and children safe will be her top priority.
View position & sources → - Mike DeWineStated position
Called on the Ohio General Assembly to pass a primary seatbelt law allowing law enforcement to stop a vehicle solely for a seatbelt violation, arguing it would increase compliance and save lives.
View position & sources → - Bill LeeStated position
Provide $80 million in public safety grants to enhance crime prevention and increase public safety in Memphis.
View position & sources → - Bill LeeStated position
Add 50 new State Troopers and fund trooper salary increases, at a cost of $37.5 million, to improve public safety statewide.
View position & sources → - Thom TillisStated position
Introduced the bipartisan National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support, and Community Outreach Act (with Sen. Richard Blumenthal) to fund officer safety, wellness, and public-education programs through the National Law Enforcement Museum and Memorial.
View position & sources → - Janet MillsStated position
Include funding in the supplemental budget for safety enhancements on Maine school buses.
View position & sources → - Spencer CoxStated position
Crack down on fentanyl traffickers while expanding treatment, recovery, and pathways back to stability for people who are struggling.
View position & sources → - Michelle Lujan GrishamStated position
Enact juvenile justice reform to address severe teen crimes.
View position & sources → - Brian KempStated position
Provide just over $1.2 million to expand the gang and human trafficking prosecution units within the Georgia Attorney General's Office.
View position & sources → - Kay IveyStated position
In her 2025 State of the State address, Ivey named public safety her number one priority for the session and committed to advancing a package of bills to support law enforcement and combat inner-city gun violence.
View position & sources → - Kay IveyStated position
Ivey pledged to sign legislation allowing the death penalty for those convicted of raping or sodomizing a child, and urged lawmakers to pass it.
View position & sources → - Jon HustedStated position
Introduced the bipartisan No Fentanyl on Social Media Act, which would direct the FTC (with DOJ and HHS) to report to Congress on minors' access to fentanyl via social media and recommend ways to stop it.
View position & sources → - Shelley Moore CapitoStated position
Pledged to continue supporting law enforcement ('Back the Blue').
View position & sources → - Jacky RosenStated position
Promised to keep working with colleagues in both parties to support law enforcement, invest in their health and safety, and ensure officers and their families have federal support and resources.
View position & sources → - Bernie MorenoStated position
Establish a mandatory minimum 20-year prison sentence for anyone who assaults a federal officer, via the Larry Henderson Act (named for a Hamilton County deputy killed in the line of duty).
View position & sources → - Josh SteinStated position
Enact salary increases for state law enforcement and correctional officers, plus signing bonuses for new officers, to improve recruitment and retention.
View position & sources → - Kelly AyotteStated position
Overhaul the Group II retirement system with a $33 million investment to restore benefits promised to public safety employees.
View position & sources → - Patrick MorriseyStated position
Partner with the Trump administration to crack down on illegal immigration and stop the flow of fentanyl into West Virginia communities.
View position & sources → - Jeff LandryStated position
Resume carrying out death-penalty sentences in Louisiana after a roughly 15-year pause, using a newly adopted nitrogen-gas execution protocol.
View position & sources → - Bill LeeStated position
Invest an additional $130 million in the Violent Crime Intervention Fund to support local law enforcement and local jurisdictions.
View position & sources → - Josh ShapiroStated position
Fund four additional Pennsylvania State Police cadet classes.
View position & sources → - Josh ShapiroStated position
Create a new $30 million competitive grant funding stream for Pennsylvania fire companies.
View position & sources → - Kay IveyStated position
Ivey pledged to expand Aniah's Law (which allows judges to deny bail for certain violent offenses) as part of her 2025 public safety agenda.
View position & sources → - Greg AbbottStated position
Pass bail reform to keep dangerous and repeat offenders detained, declaring bail reform an emergency item.
View position & sources → - Mike BraunStated position
Improve Indiana State Police recruitment and retention with competitive salaries, cost-of-living adjustments, and more comprehensive benefits.
View position & sources → - Mike KehoeStated position
Charge drug dealers with first-degree murder when they sell fentanyl that kills a Missourian, and back legislation to do so.
View position & sources → - Mark R. WarnerStated position
Introduce the Honoring our Fallen Heroes Act to extend death and disability benefits to first responders who develop service-related cancers.
View position & sources → - Tony EversStated position
Committed to investing $66 million to support services for crime victims in the next state budget.
View position & sources → - Bob FergusonStated position
Insist on a $100 million grant program to help local governments hire more well-trained law enforcement officers, and refuse to sign any state budget that does not include that funding.
View position & sources → - Sarah Huckabee SandersStated position
Pledged to expand the state prison system by building a new 3,000-bed prison in Franklin County.
View position & sources → - Kathy HochulStated position
Put a police officer on every single overnight subway train (9 p.m. to 5 a.m.) to improve transit safety.
View position & sources → - Greg GianforteStated position
Expand capacity in the Montana State Prison by 500 beds using $150 million of one-time funding.
View position & sources → - Greg GianforteStated position
Invest $7 million to increase pay for Montana Highway Patrol troopers.
View position & sources → - Andy BeshearStated position
Work toward a goal of teaching at least one trade in each of Kentucky's state prisons to reduce recidivism.
View position & sources → - Kelly ArmstrongStated position
Announce a tangible, turnkey solution to overcrowding in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation by the time the executive budget address is delivered.
View position & sources → - Brad LittleStated position
Add a new prosecutor in North Idaho dedicated solely to prosecuting drug traffickers.
View position & sources → - Maria CantwellStated position
Introduced the Stop Smuggling Illicit Synthetic Drugs on U.S. Transportation Networks Act to equip law enforcement with detection technology, drug-detection dogs, forensic resources, and better intelligence-sharing to stop fentanyl and precursor chemicals from moving through commercial aircraft, trucks, trains, and ships.
View position & sources → - Tate ReevesStated position
Through the 'Operation Unified' initiative, deploy coordinated state, local, and federal law enforcement to reduce violent crime in Jackson and pursue offenders until they are behind bars.
View position & sources → - Jeff LandryStated position
Convene a special legislative session and pass laws to strengthen the criminal justice system and repeal what he called 'soft on crime' policies, to make Louisiana safer.
View position & sources → - Kevin StittStated position
Limit fines, fees, and court costs to only what is needed for restitution, reducing what he described as a debtors'-prison system for low-income Oklahomans.
View position & sources → - Mike DunleavyStated position
Launch a state-and-Municipality-of-Anchorage 'quality of life' partnership to reduce crime, beginning with retail theft, illegal camping, disorderly behavior and drug use.
View position & sources → - Phil ScottStated position
Proposed a public safety reform package that includes repealing the 2018 bail changes and asking the Legislature to adjust the 'Raise the Age' thresholds for juvenile criminal accountability.
View position & sources → - Donald J. TrumpStated position
I am inclined to pardon many of them [January 6 defendants]. I can't say for every single one because a couple of them, probably, they got out of control. It will be a large portion of them and it would be early on.
View position & sources → - Janet MillsStated position
Increase the statewide supply of the opioid-overdose reversal medication naloxone (Narcan) by 25%.
View position & sources → - Margaret Wood HassanStated position
Committed to continue working across the aisle to combat the substance misuse epidemic, including through the END FENTANYL Act requiring Customs and Border Protection to update its drug-interdiction guidance.
View position & sources → - Joe LombardoStated position
Pass the Nevada Safe Streets and Neighborhoods Act, which reduces the felony theft threshold and imposes enhanced penalties on repeat offenders regardless of the value involved.
View position & sources → - Richard J. DurbinStated position
After the EQUAL Act compromise (to eliminate the federal crack-vs-powder cocaine sentencing disparity) was left out of the 2022 omnibus, Durbin committed to keep advocating for it: "I will continue to work with Senator Booker in advocating for this historic legislation—legislation that will help reform our criminal justice system to better live up to the ideals of true justice and equality under the law."
View position & sources → - Roger MarshallStated position
Fight to stop fentanyl deaths and hold drug dealers who use social media accountable. Marshall co-introduced the Cooper Davis Act to empower law enforcement to prosecute dealers who target youth.
View position & sources → - Joe BidenStated position
I'm offering $20 billion to states to change their state laws to eliminate minimum mandatories and set up drug courts.
View position & sources → - Dan SullivanStated position
Continue advocating for domestic-violence and sexual-assault survivors in Alaska and build on prior legislative progress.
View position & sources → - Steve DainesStated position
Pledged to always support Montana law enforcement and to oppose any efforts to defund the police.
View position & sources → - Cory A. BookerStated position
Advance criminal justice reform, including eliminating the crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity and reducing mass incarceration.
View position & sources → - Cory A. BookerStated position
Booker committed to advancing the Next Step Act, criminal justice legislation intended to build on the First Step Act with broader sentencing, reentry, and policing reforms.
View position & sources → - Shelley Moore CapitoStated position
Committed to continue combating drug abuse in West Virginia at both the state and federal levels.
View position & sources →