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Douglas Pierce's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Douglas Pierce has failed to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2024 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.

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  • "PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF ALL WOMEN! HER BODY, HER CHOICE.. STOP MEN FROM CONTROLLING WOMEN! Vote -Douglas Howard Pierce EQUALITY FOR ALL 2022" (PierceSenate.com)
  • "SUPPORT WOMEN’S RIGHTS, ALL RIGHTS. Her Body, Her choice Uphold Roe v. Wade" (twitter.com)
  • "Women’s right to choose treatment and medical care for their body is an individual decision, without the control of the government, any other persons (including men), or agencies" (piercesenate.com)
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  • "Having served in three law enforcement agencies myself, I understand that this is not so much a training issue as it is a culture and people issue. Having been an assistant chief, I also know how difficult it is to fire an officer. The fact is that 23% of officers who get fired get reinstated. When they’re fired, they need to be removed from the profession. I believe this registry could really effect change in law enforcement and in the communities they serve, that must have trust in them." (piercesenate.com)
  • "Police Captained Police Commission Neighborhood Councils, including Neighborhood Watch. Police officers in their current position, and never to be permitted to be employed by any and all police agencies (local- city + county + state + federal + federal international). We must use a Scoring System to root the bad ones out." (piercesenate.com)
  • "Southers: The need is brought about by the fact that when police officers are terminated, they often go to another department. A recent Yale study was able to corroborate the fact that when they go to other departments, their behaviors become even worse. Just as importantly, the payouts for misconduct across the country are alarming. One study that showed that when you look at the three largest cities, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, they spent over $ 2.3 billion in misconduct payouts over a decade." (piercesenate.com)
  • "This week, the U.S.C Safe Communities Institute announced the pilot rollout of the Law Enforcement Work Inquiry System Registry, the first comprehensive national catalog of police officers who have been terminated or resigned due to misconduct. The LEWIS Registry, named after the late Rep. John Lewis, is designed to hold police officers and departments accountable and increase public trust in law enforcement. All information in the registry on misconduct-such as excessive use of force, corruption, domestic violence, assault and hate group affiliation-is drawn from public sources like official department statements, court records, news reports and other open sources." (piercesenate.com)
  • "URGENT- IT’S TIME TO STOP MEXICAN CARTELS FROM KILLING OUR CITIZENS! U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT CLASSIFICATION F.T.O. FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS, ALLOWING USA MILITARY INTERVENTION -Douglas Pierce" (twitter.com)
  • "USA MILITARY INTERVENTION NOW" (twitter.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
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  • "Gun buyback programs compensate individuals who turn over firearms to a public agency or private organization. In the United States, nearly all buyback programs are implemented at the county or city level, and participation is always voluntary. The primary goal of gun buyback programs is to prevent firearm violence by reducing the stock of firearms in a community. Gun buybacks can also serve as venues for raising awareness of the risks associated with firearms, educating participants about safer firearm storage, and connecting violence prevention organizations, all of which could potentially lead to reductions in firearm crimes, injuries, or deaths. The empirical evidence regarding the effectiveness of buyback programs is limited and mixed at best. However, meaningful effects could go undetected because only a tiny fraction of guns in a community is turned in at buyback events. Regardless, buyback programs continue to garner considerable public support and continue to be implemented in many communities. This essay provides an overview of gun buyback programs in the United States, describes key findings from the small body of research on the effectiveness of these programs, and concludes with an exploration of policy considerations." (piercesenate.com)
  • "Gun buyback programs, as commonly implemented in the United States, are small, feasible interventions, but they are unlikely to measurably reduce firearm violence, even if they do prevent some incidents. Research on buyback effectiveness is limited, but the findings to date are not promising. Furthermore, the intended impacts are implausible because too few firearms are turned in to gun buybacks, at least as currently implemented. Given these limitations, policymakers and community groups should consider whether the scarce resources allocated to gun buybacks—even if these resources are minimal—might be better spent on more-promising violence prevention efforts." (piercesenate.com)
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  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "URGENT- IT’S TIME TO STOP MEXICAN CARTELS FROM KILLING OUR CITIZENS! U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT CLASSIFICATION F.T.O. FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS, ALLOWING USA MILITARY INTERVENTION -Douglas Pierce" (twitter.com)
  • "USA MILITARY INTERVENTION NOW" (twitter.com)
  • "CALIFORNIA SANCTUARY STATE - CESAR CHAVEZ IMMIGRATION LEGALIZATION REFORM ACT 2024, After (5) years of domicile in California, without criminal record AUTOMATIC I.N.S. Legal Green Card Status - Legal Citizenship. - Authored by Douglas Howard Pierce" (twitter.com)
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  • "NATO - OTAN / NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION. Immediate, and PERMANENT MEMBERSHIP. NATO: Article 4. >Soon, while we are focused on RUSSIAN invasion of Sovereign UKRAINE, we will see the MOVE on TAIWAN by CHINA< My personal prayers for the great peoples of UKRAINE." (twitter.com)
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