Ensuring public safety is a core function of government and a core value to Virginia families. We must support and fund law enforcement, to ensure responsiveness and effectiveness. We owe our law enforcement better training, better funding, and better support — it makes everyone safer.
While we should always seek to improve and innovate our policing, we should never bend to the calls to defund the police. We can both support our law enforcement, while also insisting on accountability and transparency. We must continue to build trust between police departments and communities.
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Our criminal justice system should both keep the public safe, as well as provide a road to redemption for offenders. Mark works as a criminal defense attorney, both in private practice and has taken court-appointed cases. This has given him an up-close and personal look into our criminal justice system. He also worked on prisoner re-entry initiatives inside state government. These experiences have equipped Mark to tackle these issues going forward.
Mark is also committed to fighting both illegal immigration and fentanyl epidemic. He introduced legislation to ensure Virginia cooperated with immigration authorities when it comes to illegal aliens who have committed serious crimes. Further, Mark has supported legislation to continue battling the fentanyl crisis, and even serves on the Task Force on Fentanyl and Heroin Enforcement.
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