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Eric Toney: “We have a retention issue where prosecutors right now are…”

Featuring: Eric Toney, Republican | Candidate for Attorney General of Wisconsin

Eric Toney Joins Ben & Fitzy On This Week's 'Positive Tuesday' Show!

Published January 24, 2023 | Video Starts at 06:22

So it would still be a little under, but we still feel it would be very competitive to let us recruit great new prosecutors. And on top of that, We have a retention issue where prosecutors right now are leaving to become assistant corporation counsels, private sector other jobs. where we're losing these very experienced prosecutors. So we need to raise their pay up as well. (06:22–06:31)

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“Just recently in Dodge county, the district attorney resigned and there were effectively zero prosecutors in the office.”
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“From 2012 to the fall of 2022, we had about a 59% turnover rate with prosecutors.”
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“In Wisconsin, our constitution here only allows a judge to consider cash bail to ensure a defendant appears in court.”
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“Record violence in parts of our state, Milwaukee, three straight murder records.”
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“We have, I think it's fair to call it a prosecutor crisis going on in Wisconsin.”
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“The Sheboygan DA's office has, I think, four prosecutors out of the 10 they're supposed to have.”
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“There are counties across Wisconsin that are short staffed, and especially some of our smaller rural counties that are further away from…”
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“The starting salary for an assistant district attorney is right now... a little over $27 an hour.”
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“The average for those all came out to a little over $35 an hour.”
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“What we're asking the legislature to do is increase that starting pay to $35 an hour.”
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“We've targeted $7.76 an hour so that we can make sure we're holding on to these great prosecutors.”
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“We have pay progression, which is merit based. So you don't automatically get a raise.”
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“About 65% of [prosecutors] have less than 10 years or less experience.”
Eric Toney Joins Ben & Fitzy On This Week's 'Positive Tuesday' Show! | Uploaded January 24, 2023 | 07:23-07:28
“With the Wisconsin District Attorneys association, we're a group that represents prosecutors all across Wisconsin.”
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“We come together with Criminal Justice Coalition white paper, where we try to take a narrow approach of these are the budget issues that we…”
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“We're asking for public defenders to receive effectively the same [financial support] as prosecutors.”
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“The rate of pay [for private attorneys taking public defender appointments] is $70 an hour.”
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“Public defenders are looking to move that $70 an hour up to $125 an hour.”
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“A lot of counties would actually be in favor of [increasing the pay rate for public defenders] because it will actually help county budgets.”
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“The judge is appointing a county appointed attorney [when a public defender cannot be found].”
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“It feels like there's support [for addressing the pay for prosecutors and public defenders], but there aren't hard commitments right now.”
Eric Toney Joins Ben & Fitzy On This Week's 'Positive Tuesday' Show! | Uploaded January 24, 2023 | 18:17-18:22
“This will be addressed, if at all, in the upcoming state budget, which usually gets passed around the summer.”
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“The previous legislative session, a constitutional amendment to amend the cash bail system passed and again was just passed recently here in…”
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“It will be on the April 4 ballot this year, where the voters of Wisconsin get to do something that we don't always get to do.”
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“This constitutional amendment changes what judges factor when setting bail.”
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“It no longer says it's only to appear in court. There are other factors that look at the dangerousness of the defendant.”
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“A defendant could be held with no bail for a period of time and extended for a period to 60 days.”
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“The Wisconsin District Attorneys association, we supported this back in 2016, 2017, and our organization continues to support it now.”
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“Darrell Brooks is the prime example, the Waukesha Parade massacre that I think most people have heard of.”
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“In April of 2020, we actually made a constitutional amendment that passed and that legislative.”
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“That was Marcy's law giving crime victims expanded rights here in Wisconsin.”
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“The ATF doesn't have the authority to change our statutes here in Wisconsin.”
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“We don't have as prosecutors, I don't have the authority to enforce federal law.”
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“Justice Rogensak is retiring, a conservative justice, and that puts the balance of the court in play.”
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“If one of these left wing liberals were to win, that will completely shift the balance of the court with a liberal majority.”
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“They have politicized a Supreme Court race like I think we've never seen before.”
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“Judge Doro was appointed by Governor Walker.”
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“Judge Jennifer Doro has 38 sheriffs, bipartisan support across the state, the Milwaukee Police Association, Waukesha Chiefs of Police…”
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“Judge Doro is in her 11th year as a judge in Waukesha County.”
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“Judge Doro is the chief judge of her judicial district and the chief judge of the chief judges.”
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“The left is running circles around us on early voting and absentee voting.”
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“There was a really great bill that's being proposed right now where you could get a text message notification if you do absentee voting to…”
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