May 21, 2009
Public safety worries rise with deep cuts
Prison sentencing, fire protection, and police services all face budget cuts after Tuesday's special election. Now many wonder what could be in store for public safety.
Just this week, a parolee with a loaded gun led CHP officers on a high speed chase across the Bay Bridge. In March parolee Lovell Mixon shot and killed four Oakland police officers. It's those kind of incidents that frighten people when the governor talks about releasing prisoners to save money — now that the budget measures have been defeated. State Attorney General Jerry Brown says he would review any such plan.
"You can't just let people out. You have to have a frame work of supervision and motivation so that these individuals can be controlled and deterred from their behavior which is very anti-social," said State Attorney Brown…
LINK - ABC Local News
