D.A. WANTS GANG FUNDS.Byline: Grace Lee Staff Writer The District Attorney's CERTIFICATE, ATTORNEY'S, Practice, English law. By statute 37 Geo. III., c. 90, s. 26, 28, attorneys are required to deliver to the commissioners of stamp duties, a paper or note in writing, containing the name and usual place of residence of such person, and thereupon, on paying certain Office will ask the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday Tuesday: see week. to commit $128,000 to its anti-gang program in anticipation of state cuts. The District Attorney's Office is bracing bracing, n a resistance to the horizontal components of masticatory force. for a 37 percent cut in grant money from the state Office of Criminal Justice Planning, as well as increased costs in running the program. The Gang Violence Suppression suppression /sup·pres·sion/ (su-presh´un) 1. the act of holding back or checking. 2. sudden stoppage of a secretion, excretion, or normal discharge. 3. Program allows prosecutors to work with police departments and community groups to target gang activity. The program helps prosecutors ``wage a more intense effort by our office to handle cases that greatly impact the community,'' said Jeffrey Bennett, chief deputy district attorney of special prosecutions. Bennett said the program enables prosecutors to work with investigators from the commission of a crime and an arrest through sentencing. District Attorney Greg GREG Great Egg Harbor National Scenic and Recreational River (US National Park Service) Totten, in a report to the supervisors, warned that the county is facing a ``frightening increase in gang-related violent crime,'' with an estimated 50 gangs and 5,000 gang members. Totten said gang crimes are the hardest to solve and take more resources because people are reluctant to work with police out of fear of retribution RETRIBUTION. 1. That which is given to another to recompense him for what has been received from him; as a rent for the hire of a house. 2. A salary paid to a person for his services. 3. The distribution of rewards and punishments. . Unless the program's shortfall Shortfall The amount by which the capital required to fulfill a financial obligation exceeds available capital. Notes: Shortfall risk is often combated with an efficient hedging strategy created by a fund, group, institution, or individual. is addressed, prosecutors already facing heavier caseloads will have less time to fight gang activity, Bennett said. The District Attorney's Office has 14 fewer prosecutors and six fewer investigators than it did in the last fiscal year because positions have been kept open to absorb $2.1 million in budget cuts, Bennett said. The Gang Violence Suppression Program was started in 1998 and provides funding to the Ventura and Oxnard police departments in three-year cycles. Without money to meet the $280,000 cost of funding the program to last year's levels, Bennett said, the program will lose two prosecutors. The District Attorney's Office has not been formally notified about the funding cuts ``but fully expects ... the reduction,'' Totten said. |
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