Candidates get into specifics around homeless sweeps, recruiting police officers and more
when it comes to housing affordability, homelessness, rising crime and more.
Most of the 13 candidates on the stage said they would continue the Hancock administration’s policy of forcibly sweeping homeless encampments in line with the city’s urban camping ban. Only Lisa Calderón, Leslie Herod, Terrance Roberts, Ean Thomas Tafoya and Jim Walsh indicated they would not. Calderón meanwhile has advocated for stopping the sweeps in favor of crisis intervention at encampments. She said Thursday that 10 years of the camping ban shows it doesn’t work and said that many of her fellow candidates “don’t know what they’re talking about.” Calderón was homeless as a teen trying to escape an abusive household.
Candidates were asked if they would support bringing back qualified immunity that insulates individual officers from lawsuits in instances where they violate citizens’ civil rights and instead shifts the financial burden to the city in those cases.“Sometimes the city settles claims with no admission of fault. Sometimes you settle claims because the city had a bad policy the officers are just following.
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