What changes have taken place in the prosecutor’s office as a result?
Since John’s been elected, he’s reorganized our office. He merged our felony and misdemeanor teams to create general crimes teams, and he divided those up geographically around our community prosecutors. So we have six community prosecutors in Milwaukee County, and they each represent six out of the seven police districts spread throughout the city. Because he didn’t have enough general crimes people, he had to have five teams instead of six but he created those teams around the geographic areas that the community prosecutors represent. So, for instance, I’m in District 3, and I have another community prosecutor in District 4. They merged those two districts for purposes of general crimes and any misdemeanor or felony crime that occurs within those two districts goes to one team, which handles all the cases out of that area. The natural result of that also is that two courts are the only ones who hear cases out of that area. So now when an offense occurs in a particular district the po
