Mark Green on Crime Former Republican Representative (WI-8, 1999-2007)

Increase penalties for assaults on police officers

Green said the timing of the announcement was intentional. "Just last week over a 72-hour period across the U.S., seven police officers were shot and one of them was killed," he said. The proposed bills elevate charges of assault on a law enforcement officer from a misdemeanor to a felony. They also classify killing or attempting to kill an officer because of their employment as a hate crime.

All of this is a product of the Tennessee Blue Lives Matter coalition. The bills' sponsors want to be clear about the name. "This is not intended to minimize other efforts. Those efforts are important," Green said.

Voted NO on funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.

Voted YES on more prosecution and sentencing for juvenile crime.

Rated 10% by CURE, indicating anti-rehabilitation crime votes.

CURE (Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants) is a membership organization of families of prisoners, prisoners, former prisoners and other concerned citizens. CURE's two goals are

1. to use prisons only for those who have to be in them; and
2. for those who have to be in them, to provide them all the rehabilitative opportunities they need to turn their lives around.