If I was underpaid AND short staffed I too would want better pay and additional help.....who honestly would not? Another thing to remember part of the lawyers job is to settle cases using common sense...not everything has to go to a trial.
That gies for both defense and prosecutors!

I don't think many people are actually getting ticketed for not having insurance. First of all, they aren't pulling people over to find out if they have insurance. It only comes up if they were stopped for some other reason or get in an accident (seat belts, on the other hand, are a different matter). Second, the tickets given for no insurance give you a certain amount of time to send proof in to the court and have the ticket dropped. The only people ending up with tickets to pay are the ones actually driving without insurance. In my opinion, those people should just be thrown in jail and forced to work on a chain gang until every penny of damage they caused is paid for.

where will the money come from to hire new prosecutors? I would gladly pay more taxes to have a safer community, but if our jail is already seriously overcrowded, what will come of having more prosecutors?

when crime pays more than it used to, this is what happens- people are out of work and desperate and will do stupid things for money, like purse snatching or breaking into homes and vehicles, but IMO it's ridiculous to jail pot smokers and let drunk drivers go...our drunk driving laws are a joke, and should be tougher, but with no one to prosecute them they are back on the road in no time...

We really have this much crime? I think you are mistaken, Janesville is too perfect for all of which you speak of.

So a study and D.A. O'Leary say we need more prosecutors. If we get them, will we see fewer plea deals? Not likely, since we then would have to build a new county jail which the sheriff doesn't want. We'd also need more probation officers, more electronic ankle bracelets, more jail personnel, more police and sheriff's deputies.

No, the D.A.'s well earned reputation as a plea bargainer will not recede with the addition of 9 more assistant D.A.'s. It will just expedite the plea bargaining process.

Maybe the D'A.'s office should hire some out of work used car salesmen instead of attorneys. Then perhaps the public would get the better of some of these plea deals for a change.

then i gues the problem is with rock county. they dont like to hire replacement workers and pay them what other counties are paying their employees.
so the da office is down 9 and the jail staff is down over 14, and both could make more if they went somewhere else.
what is wrong with this picture?

Maybe the Police Corporation should stop arresting people for dumb little things? It seems they just keep the system flowing, if they dont have enough convictions they go invent more. Just like the insurance companies involved in getting their product a law...lol. How much in fines has Janesville made on non-insurance tickets alone? Our whole legal system needs to be wiped out and rebuilt.

It does concern me that the criminal element knows they will barely get a slap on the wrist for what they do, so they continue to do it. O'Leary is getting a reputation for not wanting to prosecute when in fact they don't have the time to prosecute and end up taking pleas when they would rather not, just to expedite matters. And he is right to want to prosecute repeat drunken drivers and that they should sit in the tank - not because they will learn and try to recover from their addiction (yeah, right) but because every day they sit behind bars is a day they don't get behind the wheel and imperil us all.

To hell with those hi-priced attorneys. Let em earn their money.

I also agree with Hizz 100%.

DA's wouldn't be as busy if jail wasn't such a pleasant option for some.

Before you compare salaries of DA's and private attorneys, you need to compare their job duties so you are comparing the same level of responsibilities, hours, benefits, etc. Just looking at salaries won't compare apples to apples.

I would like to know how much is wasted on marijuana prosecutions. Until that figure is known...we can't come to an educated conclusion.