01/15/2019
“Many times, you will have a young prosecutor making $42,000, who is sitting at a table discussing a case with a first-year cop from Boca Raton, who is making $62,000 a year,” Aronberg said. “And this is someone with seven years of education and six figures of education debt.”
Front-line prosecutors and their assistant public-defender counterparts are leaving government service at such a fast rate that public safety is becoming an issue. At least that’s the conclusion of 15th Circuit State Attorney Dave Aronberg, a former legislator and government lawyer liaison to The ...