Ending Mass Incarceration for nonviolent crimes.
The severe sanction of incarceration should be primarily reserved for violent offenders. His innovations detailed below have lowered the daily populations of locally incarcerated inmates from 3,151 per day in 2013 to 1,535 per day today. This results in a daily incarceration savings of $155,000 and a yearly savings of more than 50 million dollars for Metro government and Davidson County taxpayers.
| Daily Population of Locally Incarcerated Inmates | |
| Year | Number of Inmate Days in Jail |
| 2013 | 3,095 |
| 2014 | 2,838 |
| 2015 | 2,629 |
| 2016 | 2,536 |
| 2017 | 2,518 |
| 2018 | 2,259 |
| 2019 | 2,117 |
| 2020 | 1,683 |
| 2021 | 1,510 |