00:00 We know about the decades and decades of police failings and how slow the Mayor of London
00:05 has been to address those. Doubling down on that narrative of being tough on crime, I
00:10 really want to work with communities to understand what they need. I've talked a lot about taking
00:14 a public health approach, making sure that we're investing in youth services, but also
00:18 creating spaces where the community can hold the police to account. I think they are really
00:23 important so that's what I'd make sure that we were doing differently, making sure that
00:27 the community have more say in what happens in their local communities and more spaces
00:31 to hold them to account. The work I've done in Hackney as a councillor has all been about
00:36 looking at what communities need and moving away from a traditional policing model. I've
00:40 worked with police to look at getting police out of schools because we know that young
00:44 people don't want police to be in schools and it often escalates and criminalises young
00:47 people. I'm the only candidate really saying that we don't need to just put more officers
00:54 on the street to solve crime, we need to look at the causes of crime and look at how we
00:58 redistribute resources to make sure that youth services are better funded, but we're also
01:02 deprioritising the policing of cannabis which means that young people are basically over-policed
01:07 and young black people. I see that a lot happening in my borough. So I think it's just thinking
01:13 differently about the way we think about policing. We've spoken here today about fixing things
01:17 like lighting to make women feel safer, so investing in solutions like that rather than
01:22 just over-policing communities.
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