• Helped pass record funding for law enforcement to tackle gun violence, leading to a historic decrease in violent crime in Western New York, including an approximately 50% drop in shootings and homicides in the City of Buffalo.

• Successfully pushed to give judges discretion to detain individuals accused of violent crimes, serious felonies, or repeat offenses.

• Helped passed legislation to raise the legal age of purchasing a semi-automatic rifle to 21 and require a permit for such weapons, following the devastating, racist mass shooting at Tops on May 14, 2022.

• Helped pass legislation creating a law enforcement task force to crack down on retail crime.

• Passed legislation to prohibit and criminalize ghost guns as well as components used to make ghost guns.

• Sponsored and passed legislation to establish the crime of making a threat of mass harm to help authorities deter and prosecute those who terrorize communities with violent threats.

• Sponsoring legislation to make auto-theft a bail-eligible offense.

• Passed legislation to fund research into gun violence into order to identify novel solutions to nationwide problem of gun crime.

Empowering and protecting survivors of domestic violence:

• Sponsoring legislation to raise the penalty for assaults that involve domestic violence.

• Authored legislation to give judges power to grant temporary emergency spousal support to survivors of domestic violence.

• Passed legislation that prohibits employers from discriminating against domestic violence survivors.

• Passed several bills to remove barriers that prevent domestic violence survivors from escaping abusers.

• Passed law to limit access to firearms by domestic abusers.