1. Expanding Alternatives to Incarceration

3D CAC supports diversion programs, restorative justice models, treatment-centered interventions, and community-based accountability processes that address root causes, reduce recidivism, and prevent unnecessary cycles of incarceration.

Public safety is strengthened when accountability is paired with rehabilitation, support, and meaningful pathways away from repeated justice system involvement.

2. Advancing Appropriate Crisis Response Models

3D CAC supports crisis response models that appropriately utilize, supplement, and coordinate with law enforcement when needed.

Mental health crises, substance use emergencies, domestic violence situations, youth crises, trauma-related incidents, and family instability often require specialized, trauma-informed responders working in coordination with MPD and community-based partners.

A safer city requires the right response, at the right time, by the right trained professionals.

3. Embedding Trauma-Informed Practices

3D CAC supports trauma-informed practices at every stage of the justice process, from first police contact through investigation, prosecution, adjudication, incarceration, supervision, and reentry.

The people most impacted by violence are often also among those most deeply impacted by the systems designed to respond to it. Public safety policies must recognize trauma, reduce harm, and avoid responses that deepen instability.

4. Ensuring Comprehensive Reentry Support

3D CAC supports reentry systems that include housing stability, employment pathways, behavioral health support, healthcare access, family reunification, mentorship, civic reintegration, and community-based accountability.

Reentry without wraparound support often returns individuals and families to the same conditions that contribute to instability and crime. Strong reentry support is not separate from public safety; it is public safety.

5. Strengthening Accountability, Transparency, Accuracy, and Data Collection

3D CAC supports strong accountability, transparent operations, accurate public safety data, and reliable reporting across all levels of public safety and justice system operations.

Reliable data is not merely an administrative function; it is a community safety function. Accurate crime data, response data, service data, and outcome reporting allow residents, agencies, advocates, and policymakers to understand conditions clearly and respond effectively.

In January 2026, 3D CAC raised concerns regarding MPD crime data accuracy directly with the Chief of Police and supported the accountability actions that followed. This reflects the role of rigorous, independent community oversight in practice.

6. Eliminating Systemic Inequities

3D CAC supports the elimination of systemic inequities in public safety and justice practices, including disparities in stops, arrests, charging decisions, sentencing, supervision, reentry conditions, access to services, and treatment by public systems.

These disparities often fall disproportionately on Black and brown residents, low-income communities, young people, seniors, returning citizens, survivors of violence, and people with disabilities. A fair justice system must be accountable to the communities most impacted by its decisions.