Talk:Public Safety

I have found and interesting article from injusticewatch that addresses the disparity between public prosecutors office funding and public defenders office funding.

https://www.injusticewatch.org/news/courts/2021/sharone-mitchell-public-defender/

From that page,
>The Cook County state’s attorney’s office had a budget of $176 million in fiscal year 2021, compared to the public defender’s budget of about $80 million. In addition to the general funds that it receives from Cook County, the state’s attorney’s budget includes money that it receives through forfeitures and $39 million in federal, state, and private grants. The public defender’s office hasn’t raised a million dollars in grants in any year in the last decade, according to an analysis of county budgets by Injustice Watch.

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