Ron DeSantis: “Crime's at a 50 year low, partially because people are held…”

“I mean, you serve your sentence, that's one thing. We don't release early. And so we want to make sure people are held accountable. But the reality with that is even though Crime's at a 50 year low, partially because people are held accountable. and they're doing so, you need to be able to do that. So you'll see more FTEs for corrections. I think the budget leaves us for my tenure, a net reduction of state employees of about 1,000.” (55:17–55:21)

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