Public Safety

Public Safety:

Citizens have a right to live in a safe and healthy community and must be protected during the time an offender is under community supervision. To assist with this supervision a range of interventions appropriate to the varying risks presented by offenders are used. These interventions focus on both appropriate responses to the present criminal behavior and to moving the offender toward healthy, pro-social community membership. Community safety cannot be achieved without meaningful accountability for the harms already caused and the reformation of criminal thinking and behavior for the reduction of recidivism.