Q&A
Discussion on how good jobs can reduce recidivism and improve public safety
1:34:42
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Council Member De La Rosa asks about the connection between good jobs, reduced recidivism, and improved public safety. Justice Favor provides insights based on personal experience and data.
- Construction jobs offer easy entry points for formerly incarcerated individuals
- Livable wages and career opportunities reduce the likelihood of reoffending
- Family-sustaining jobs are described as the best crime prevention tool
Carmen N. De La Rosa
1:34:42
One of the things that this bill also looks at is reducing recidivism.
1:34:48
Right?
1:34:48
Something that has deeply personal for me.
1:34:49
I know deeply personal for you.
1:34:51
In your testimony.
1:34:53
How can good jobs reduce recidivism and improve public safety since we are a city that has prioritized safety in our city?
Justice Favor
1:35:02
I mean, it's personal.
1:35:05
When we think about You know, a lot of this work is being already built being built and disenfranchised under distressed communities, high crime communities.
1:35:19
And, you know, I grew up in the community.
1:35:21
I was crime really, poverty stricken.
1:35:23
And most of the people I know that committed crime, they didn't commit crimes of passion.
1:35:28
I didn't I didn't know well, I don't think I know anyone that, you know, committed some of the, you know, heinous crimes like rape or things like that.
1:35:36
But I didn't know people that may have robbed and stole or sold drugs and pure out of survival.
1:35:43
So when we talk about ending recidivism, construction is one is the 1st and most one of the easiest entry points for one that's for a person that is formally incarcerated to get in.
1:35:54
For many reasons, they don't check a box.
1:35:57
They just wanna know if they could do this work.
1:35:59
So when you provide someone with a livable wage or career, folks aren't going back.
1:36:05
The data shows that if someone has a career opportunity that they make an adlivable wage, there's no reason to re offend.
1:36:16
A family sustaining job is the best crime prevention tool.
1:36:20
Workers earned better wages are less likely to need secondary income to commit crime out of poverty.
