A cop for nearly 38 years and Toronto police chief from 2015 to 2021, Saunders positioned himself early in the campaign as a tough-on-crime candidate who could save the city from “out-of-control” lawlessness.

Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9792947/toronto-next-mayor-7-candidates-list/

But critics of such legislation, including the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), point out how tough-on-crime laws from the Harper era have compounded the steady rise of Indigenous overrepresentation in the prison system.

Source: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/02/13/news/blake-desjarlais-systemic-racism-prison-reform

ELECTION 2023-CHICAGO MAYOR — For years, Republicans have sought to win over voters by depicting Democratic-led cities as lawless centers of violence that need tough-on-crime policies.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ap-clarence-thomas-jimmy-carter-europe-mayor-b2289473.html

In Louisiana, Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican who was recently elected governor, ran on a tough-on-crime platform, with endorsements from sheriffs and prosecutors.

Source: https://www.courant.com/2023/11/05/gubernatorial-candidates-quarrel-over-glory-for-winning-opioid-settlements/

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg won election in 2021 on a progressive platform despite the victory of Eric Adams, a tough-on-crime Democrat, in the mayoral contest that same year.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/criminal-justice-reforms-after-george-floyd-put-city-police-in-catastrophic-state/article_5a9b7d06-b647-52de-9456-1f9e6f34e37f.html

On two other measures, California voters continued to distance themselves from the state’s tough-on-crime approach of prior decades.

Source: https://www.sanjoseinside.com/politics/whom-will-gov-newsom-appoint-to-fill-sen-dianne-feinsteins-senate-seat/

Russell Tucker was a Black man facing the death penalty in the South in the “tough-on-crime” 1990s.

Source: https://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2023/02/04/weekend-humor-from-celia-rivenbark-classified-presidential-document-dos-and-donts/

The goal was to push roll back some of the state’s tough-on-crime policies.

Source: https://www.dailybreeze.com/2023/12/24/fine-tuning-states-theft-laws-is-in-order/

With Mr. Macron’s efforts to achieve social “” clearly in ruins, the hard-liners in his coalition, such as the tough-on-crime interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, are likely to be strengthened.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/opinion/france-protests-nahel-m.html