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Why I'm Running
Justice is bigger than a jail cell. Human beings don't set out to be criminals - and we aren't meant to be caged.
People go through real trouble in their lives deserving of real attention. When one crime is committed, when one person is arrested and incarcerated, entire families and communities are changed forever.
Our City needs a fundamentally different, community-driven, social services approach to criminal justice that keeps us safe by respecting the humanity of everyone involved.
Richmond's Commonwealth's Attorney should be our chief reform and chief public safety officer, not just our top prosecutor.
I'm running as a progressive reformer, leader, and innovator to make reimagining public safety our City's reality.
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Policy Pledges
Commitments to progress
Empower diverse prosecutors
to reflect Richmond's communities, values, and reform priorities.
Fewer than 5 of Richmond's 40 prosecutors are Black and Brown.
Social services, not sentences
for an effective criminal justice system that keeps us safe by respecting the humanity of everyone it touches.
Fewer than 20 people were accepted into drug and general district mental health alternative courts in the first quarter of 2021 (Oct '20 - Jan '21).
End mass incarceration
disproportionately affecting Black and Brown Richmonders by managing public, community-driven controls on prosecutorial discretion.
Currently, Richmond's prosecutors are not subject to a performance review system.
Prosecute police misconduct
by publicly enforcing clear, community-driven standards for use-of-force.
Summer 2020: Over 200 protesters arrested; only 2 police officers charged.
Early voting begins April 23 | Primary: June 8
Meet Tom
An innovative servant leader
Tom founded the Virginia Holistic Justice Initiative and his criminal defense practice, served as a Richmond prosecutor and policy advisor, a Marine Corps Captain and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan – and after graduating from UVA College, Law, & the Darden School of Business, he had the good sense to marry a Public Defender. Julia and Tom live a life of servant leadership together in Church Hill.
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Opening Statements - Candidates for Richmond commonwealth’s attorney make their cases
Richmond Mag
Two Democrats will compete to be the city’s next commonwealth’s attorney in this month’s primary election, with no expected Republican challengers come fall. Colette McEachin, the incumbent, [...]
Jun 1, 2021
Will the progressive prosecutor movement come to Richmond?
Virginia Mercury
When a group of prosecutors representing some of Virginia’s biggest localities banded together to pursue criminal justice reform initiatives last year, one large, heavily Democratic city was conspicuously absent. [...]