Paul was raised in Attleboro. His parents are retired pharmacists and small business owners. He spent many summers and days after school working in his parents' drug stores, where from a very young age he learned the hard work, service and the challenges and rewards of small business ownership.
Crime prevention is a very important issue to every citizen.I am an advocate of evidence-based crime prevention and an expert on criminal justice.I write about crime policy issues because I care about the issue,
Our community needs someone who understands the unintended consequences of laws that are symbolic and expensive; someone who has worked in local and state government agencies that provide services to the public. I am someone who understands the games that go on with career bureaucrats and politicians and I know the nuanced questions that need to be asked of senior level government agency administrators to ensure that your tax dollars are not being wasted. Having been a gubernatorial appointee in the Deval Patrick Administration in a leadership capacity in Massachusetts' prison system, worked in the Executive Office of the nation's 5th largest jail, as a consultant to various public safety agencies, and with a master's in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania, I understand better than any other candidate, how to keep people and communities safe.
I understand the issues and what needs to be done about them.