Lets Talk Maryland » Metro - DC

We should strongly support a couple of great public safety proposals that appear in the 2007 Preliminary Public Safety Master Plan recently released by the Prince George's Planning Board. The Public Safety Master Plan proposes that we create a crime surcharge to help fund public safety and move as quickly as possible toward bringing the size of our police force in line with the national average for jurisdictions of our size.

We should encourage the state legislature to create an offender-based crime prevention surcharge in Prince George's County, which would be a fine paid by a monetary surcharge or collected through disposition of seized property that would be dedicated to public safety resources, like additional police officers and more fire and EMS personnel⁄equipment. Law-abiding taxpayers should not be [the] only ones who bear the burden for crime in our county. Crime should become an increasingly rare and expensive proposition for criminals.