The Public Safety Act of 2016 was passed during April 2016. The public safety process of becoming an act started in 2014 when Governor Haslam created a special task force. The task force is composed of 250 stakeholders from Tennessee from different organizations. The stakeholders include district attorneys, legislators, judges, public defenders, state agency commissioners, mayors, victim rights activists, treatment providers, sheriffs, religious leaders, and representatives. The task force goals focused on sentencing and recidivism to reduce crime and to improve the public safety in Tennessee. Governor Haslam created a plan from reports on gathered from the task force. The Public Safety Act was developed after the reports were reviewed by the Governor’s Public Safety Subcabinet.
This act has changed some of the provisions of the crime committed and the sentencing for the listed crimes in this act. This act lists several key components with some major changes. One on the key components of the bill addresses domestic violence. According to Federal Bureau of Investigation, the violent crime rate for the 2014 was 608.4 per 100,000 which is a 17.8 increase from the year 2013. From …show more content…
The purpose and the intent for this act is decrease crime and reduce recidivism. It also plans on increasing the threshold on certain misdemeanors and felonies. There is another act in place in California that has a completely different reform to fit its states purposes. I also found that the some of the committee members that helped create this act was not an involved in any criminal justice field. One of those organizations would be Memphis Tomorrow, which is an organization composed of business CEO’s. I believe that the Public Safety Act will help reduce crime and recidivism but it will take time to actually see the results of this
This act has changed some of the provisions of the crime committed and the sentencing for the listed crimes in this act. This act lists several key components with some major changes. One on the key components of the bill addresses domestic violence. According to Federal Bureau of Investigation, the violent crime rate for the 2014 was 608.4 per 100,000 which is a 17.8 increase from the year 2013. From …show more content…
The purpose and the intent for this act is decrease crime and reduce recidivism. It also plans on increasing the threshold on certain misdemeanors and felonies. There is another act in place in California that has a completely different reform to fit its states purposes. I also found that the some of the committee members that helped create this act was not an involved in any criminal justice field. One of those organizations would be Memphis Tomorrow, which is an organization composed of business CEO’s. I believe that the Public Safety Act will help reduce crime and recidivism but it will take time to actually see the results of this