THE MISSION

Our mission is to elect better prosecutors. Justice & Public Safety PAC is the first and leading national effort to improve the criminal justice system by electing better prosecutors—winning races in 16 states over the last 9 years.

Prosecutors have outsize power and largely unchecked authority in the criminal justice system—from charging nonviolent drug offenders with felonies to seeking the death penalty disproportionately based on the race of the victim and defendant.

Almost all prosecutors in America are elected to office and 95% of them are re-elected—often without serious challengers and regardless of corruption, scandal or incompetence. Uncluttered elections mean a real chance for impact. 

Electing good prosecutors is complementary to traditional reform initiatives, concentrating efforts where they have the most immediate impact. For defendants in these jurisdictions, a fair prosecutor can mean the difference between freedom and imprisonment—or death.