Criminal justice reformWiener said that the criminal justice system, which he called racist, needs to be structurally changed.
Policing needs to be reformed, but he also called for changes to the jury system, how people are sentenced, the prison system, and how people are reintegrated into society after they serve their time. "We need to remake and right size this broken and bloated system," Wiener said. "And we need to shift funding from armed police to unarmed first responders who are trained to respond to crisis situations around mental health, addiction, homelessness and other areas where we do not need armed police officers.