Los Angeles Adult Entertainment: Trutanich Says Misdemeanor Filings Would Come to Halt
Trutanich
made clear that to the contrary, if cuts in his staffing are made, his priority
will be to defend the city against lawsuits. (He has claimed that in his seven
months in office, he has saved the city $80 million by not settling
unmeritorious cases which would have been compromised, by practice, before he
came into office on July 1, instead taking those cases to trial and winning.)
Increasing Police
Officers
Trutanich
noted that under the budget proposal, the number of police officers in the city
would be increased, a move he has supported. Questioning the wisdom of
concomitantly decreasing the number of prosecutors, he remarked:
“The city
must provide the tools to prosecute the people that the officers arrest. If we
don’t, what do you think will happen?”
He
answered his question by saying:
“It won’t
be long before the people that Mike represents understand this: They can go out
and do a drunk driving. They can go out and commit acts of prostitution, be a
john, whatever it might be—drugs—and there are no consequences.”
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