Prevention is real safety
We want safety,
they want power
What actually keeps us safe is being dismantled—while fear is used to concentrate power at the top.
Violence prevention, healthcare, mental health care, and good jobs are the foundation of public safety. This Administration is dismantling those protections—cutting public health, community safety, and food assistance—while using fear to justify policies that make us less safe.
Power Grabs
Corruption & policy moves
Federal leaders are using false crime narratives to override local control, weaken accountability, and impose harsher, more punitive systems
Budget reality
Chaotic & cruel budget cuts
From healthcare to food assistance to violence prevention, and victims’ services, proven safety investments are being slashed—putting lives at risk while billions flow upward.
The scope of what’s happening
This is about power, not safety
We know what keeps communities safe: housing, healthcare, food, mental health care, and violence prevention. Yet those foundations are under attack while fear is weaponized to justify surveillance, mass deportation, incarceration, and authoritarian control. Crime is the smokescreen—consolidating power is the goal.
$1 trillion
Cut from Medicaid
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Leading to nearly 3 in 10 young adults losing health coverage—and increased crime when people are stripped of care.
$187 billion
Cut from food assistance (SNAP)
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Through 2034, despite evidence that nutrition access reduces crime and stabilizes families.
170k
People at risk of homelessness
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Due to federal housing cuts that undermine one of the strongest foundations of community safety.
$170 billion
Spent on mass deportation
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More than all state and local law enforcement combined—while healthcare, prevention, and vital medical research are defunded.
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The big picture
How the U.S. is becoming less safe
Shifting resources away from proven safety strategies and toward corrupt and punitive legal systems undermines public safety nationwide.
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