“The research shows we need a public health approach to public safety. You want to make us safer? Invest in poverty, in ending poverty, invest in housing, invest in climate, invest in education,” Bowman said on CNN. “What we’re doing is adding more police and feeding the prison industrial complex, and that has to stop.”
Bowman’s comments came in response to the Jan. 10 death of Tyre Nichols, who was beaten by Memphis police officers after being