"The latest possible reductions, were they to happen, would result in large part due to a sharp reduction in federal dollars from the Trump administration Public safety costs money. Justice is expensive. Money is finite. There is less money. And so, there will be less justice. Please listen carefully: there will be less safety, Rosen said to his assembled staff and county leaders in the Board of Supervisors chambers, as part of his annual state-of-the-office speech."
"What I urge all the people here, and in our community to understand, is that budget cuts to the DA's Office are going to have tangible, negative, and dire consequences for the public safety of every Santa Clara County resident. Will people get hurt? Will they be killed? Will criminals go free? I don't know, Rosen continued. What's needed is clear-headed analysis of what this community wants and what it needs."
"None of Santa Clara County's amenities parks, pools, schools, roads, sewers, and hospitals are worth a dollar if the people who live here are not safe from crime. Rosen gave his speech amid a backdrop of running tension between him and the county administration recently inflamed by his contention that Measure A a sales-tax increase approved by voters last year to add $330 million annually to county coffers was misleadingly pitched to him as a way to stabilize funding."
Jeff Rosen warned that staffing cuts to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office, driven by multi-year budget shortfalls and reductions in federal funding, would significantly harm public safety. He stated that limited funds force reductions in justice and safety and that budget cuts would have tangible, negative, and dire consequences for every county resident. Rosen questioned whether people would be hurt or killed or whether criminals could be freed as capacity shrinks. He contrasted public safety with other county amenities, asserting services are worthless if residents are not safe. He criticized Measure A's presentation for not ensuring DA funding stability.
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