This particular issue should have never been one to begin with. The hurt the pain the anger and sheer sadness, Should have never had to befall anyone. I'm tired of the my condolences, the I'm sorry for your loss. I'm tired of the children being afraid to go to school or to play outside. I'm tired of someone minding their own business in their own home cooking dinner or watching TV just to be gunned down. I'm tired of seeing families like mine grieving from an unimaginable yet avoidable loss.           The politicians have had years to fix this crisis. They have had more heart for big banks and billionaires than the mourning families of lost loved ones. I'm not going to say it's time for things to change. I'm going to say it should have never been in the first place and it ends now! I have a plan to create a community and law enforcement task force. I don't want it to just be in our most hard hit cities. I would like for this to be a statewide venture.    
   Local government officials should be communicating weekly making sure those bad actors aren't just moving from one city to another just to wreak more havoc on people that just want to live. This task force would focus on creating more Gang and Street Life prevention programs.  Knowing that there's a difference between being a Gang member and a Street Hustler or a Grinder, is important because not everyone should be put into the same category. 
  Some people are just attracted to what the streets have to offer. We have to take the streets on with better alternatives. The task force would work with the California department of Education in order to offer the most in demand vocational job training courses. We would work with large and small businesses alike in order to make sure that upon completion of these courses there would be a job waiting for the individuals who participate. 
  If these individuals have records prior to enrolling in the programs the task force would also have separate entities in order to work with them on expungement and community service fulfilment opportunities.  We want to help those who want to try to clear their records and start over. We can offer help via community service or other methods such as unpaid internships which will help businesses and can be used to build skill sets and self-esteem. 
  Whatever ideas  we as a community and as a state can come up with so that we can offer a fresh start.   As for the legal portion of this task force the law enforcement agencies would receive training on how to be aware of hot spots around the city and work closely with community leaders ,residence and former Gang members to address the concerns about the safety of their neighborhoods. The task forces ultimate goal is to reclaim our communities. The individuals who are commiting these acts of heinous violence will not be tolerated. 
   The task force will launch an all out guns and illegal drug hunt. The streets are full of illegal guns and drugs. Taking as many of them off the streets as possible will save lives but we have to get to the source of where they're coming from to begin with. If individuals are willing to cooperate those efforts will  allow for a potential reduce sentence for being in possession of an unregistered weapon. However if that weapon is connected to a crime that individual will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
   The difference between this task force and others is that members of the community who have been trying to fix this problem on their own by creating programs will be working in conjunction with correctional officers law enforcement and there will be an oversight committee so that we don't have excessive force situations. We can lower the rate of unjustified police shootings. If a suspect is running away or not an immediate threat to anyone then there's no need for that suspect to be killed. 
 Though the committee will not have full authority over law enforcement the oversight committee of individuals in each community will evaluate each case and complaint and recommend discipline in accordance to the law.  There's a lot of components to this task force that I have thought of but I would like ideas from members of the most hard-hit cities as they have been victims themselves either by losing family  members and friends or just being hostages their homes. 

  Retired law enforcement including but not limited to former FBI, Defense and prosecutorial attorneys, correctional officers and juvenile detention personnel will be included in this committee so that we will have an array of voversight from as many prospectives as possible.

Affordable Education

I have been worried about college since the day my son was born. I worked 3 jobs to make sure he had everything he needed to excel. Now 17 years later he plays 22 instruments and counting, he's an honor roll student and so socially conscious. Like so many others out there he would be an asset for any University, But because of the cost of higher education so many have had to put their dreams aside. 
   The world is missing out on what could be the best doctors, scientist, engineers, and so many other  wonderful contributors to society. We can no longer sit by and allow these talented young minds to lye by the wayside simply because they cannot afford higher education we're missing out just as much as they are. My plan is to work with community colleges and universities in the state of California to offer some type of subsidies or incentives for them to increase their scholarship programs. Such as if a student takes 2 years at a community college they can receive admittance to a four-year University with that credit in hand and possibly only paying 25% of the universities cost versus the full 100%.
 If there's a way that the state could cover the remaining 25% it would substantially decreased the amount of debt for students looking to go straight into a 4-year college. Yes it's a compromise on their behalf but they will still come out with the same degree in the same great education. Not just the state of California would benefit from this because what these students go on to be can benefit the world with new challenges arising such as pandemics and climate change issues things that we haven't seen in hundreds of years or if ever in our lifetimes are arising and we need new minds with fresh ideas to get into the fields of science engineering and technology and so many others. 
To be able to solve these problems or even prevent them before they become said problem. My affordable education program lies deeper than that. By helping parents prepare starting from birth. In a lot of countries when a child is born a certain amount of money is set aside for their college education. The more we educate parents on what the cost of college can be when their child turns 18 or graduates high school the more we can help them prepare for those times. We can also increase the labor market by offering college students more flexible schedules and working with companies to do just that. if a student has more opportunities to find an internship in the early stages of their career choices it can help them be more prepared for their collegiate experience therefore  giving them a better chance of success.

The Environment

There's no time for niceties and political correctness. There's no time to sugarcoat the velocity in which this eminant danger is upon us. We've had record temperatures in the year of 2020 we've had rapidly growing fires and other climate related anomalies in the state of California and are surrounding states. Not to mention the atrocious storms that continue to batter our southern coastlines. It is time for immediate action. If elected as Governor I will been working on several plans that will not only help mitigate and slow down the effects of climate change in the state of California, but to also provide jobs and housing while doing so. This is not a game it's not a joke if we plan to leave something for our children and their children's children we must act now. In conjunction with the federal government City and other state officials we can put together a comprehensive plan that will express the severity of the situation. People choose not to listen and the problem is worsening we must meet people where they are in order for change to be enacted in regards to this crisis.