Alcee Hastings Sr. on Crime

• Rated 46% by the NAPO, indicating a police-the-police stance. (Dec 2014)
• Sponsored evidence-based & proven prevention for street gangs. (Mar 2013)
• Harsher sentencing for "pill mill" operators. (Mar 2011)
• Voted YES on enforcing against anti-gay hate crimes. (Apr 2009)
• Voted YES on expanding services for offenders' re-entry into society. (Nov 2007)
• Reduce recidivism by giving offenders a Second Chance. (Mar 2007)
• More funding and stricter sentencing for hate crimes. (Apr 2001)
• Moratorium on death penalty; more DNA testing. (Mar 2001)
• Require DNA testing for all federal executions. (Mar 2001)
• Rated 90% by CURE, indicating pro-rehabilitation crime votes. (Dec 2000)
• Voted YES on funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. (Jun 2000)
• Voted NO on more prosecution and sentencing for juvenile crime. (Jun 1999)
• Voted YES on maintaining right of habeas corpus in Death Penalty Appeals. (Mar 1996)
• Voted NO on making federal death penalty appeals harder. (Feb 1995)
• Voted YES on replacing death penalty with life imprisonment. (Apr 1994)
• Life imprisonment for repeat sexual predators. (Mar 1994)
• Stricter sentencing for hate crimes. (Mar 1993)