Montgomery, Alabama
The Montgomery County Commission meets Tuesday morning to discuss using ARPA funding to help prevent violence in the city. The Montgomery Police Department is down several hundred officers and violent crime has been on the rise. Since the city takes up about 88% of the county, the county commission is trying to help. I spoke with District 5 Commissioner Doug Singleton about several measures that they will be discussing at their meeting tomorrow. A proposed resolution would reallocate 1.
“We wanted to be able to bring in a couple of extra prosecutors to help the District Attorney try these cases as quickly as possible, especially now that we have the judges coming in. We asked and the Supreme Court justices granted us 4 possibly 5 judges to come in, and we’re going to take the 20 oldest murder trials that are pending and divvy those up, about 4 or 5 per judge, and start attacking those cases as soon as we possibly can.
Of the 1.75 million, right now the proposed resolution says $500,000 would go towards the Sheriff’s violence suppression task force, $500,000 would be allocated to hire the two new prosecutors, and $750,000 would go towards establishing programs for at-risk children. Commissioner Singleton says those specific amounts could go up or down, depending on what the five commissioners agree on.
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