“Increase public-safety resources to reduce crime and make Alaska safer statewide.”
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All three cited sources are reachable and all three quotes appear verbatim. The CHAMPIONED rating rests principally on Dunleavy's leadership as chief executive over the FY2025 budget: the gov.alaska.gov budget release (June 28, 2024) confirms concrete, statewide public-safety resource increases he drove and signed — 10 additional Village Public Safety Officer positions, VPSO salary increases, $700K for missing/murdered Indigenous persons investigations, and a $9.5M replacement southeast Alaska patrol vessel — accompanied by his own statement that "we are ensuring our Alaska State Troopers and Village Public Safety Officers have the resources they need to protect Alaskans." A governor proposing and signing the state budget is genuine executive authorship/leadership, which clears the CHAMPIONED bar (more than a single vote or passive support). Two adversarial caveats keep this from rating higher: (1) SB 151 (MMIP Review Commission, indigenous cultural training, 60-day missing-persons database reporting), signed Sept 3, 2024, was SPONSORED by Senator Donny Olson (D-Golovin), not Dunleavy — his role there was signing/enactment, not authorship; the rationale correctly states only that "he signed SB 151," so it does not overstate. (2) The cited DPS "Crime in Alaska 2024" page confirms only that a statewide crime/public-safety report exists — it does NOT contain the crime-change statistics (the ~6.9% overall drop, 1.3% violent-crime drop, 9.1% property-crime rise are in a downloadable PDF, not on the cited page), and the crime-reduction outcome is genuinely mixed (property crime up). Because the resource-increase leadership is solidly documented but the crime-reduction half of the promise is neither verifiable from the cited URL nor clearly achieved, confidence is trimmed from 0.75 to 0.70.
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