State Senator Andre Jacque is urging Governor Tony Evers to follow what President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union Address and fund the police.
The De Pere Senator says in a news release that the American Rescue Plan Act funds could be used to help give law enforcement more resources and training to help protect and serve their communities. Jacque noted that crime is on the rise, and the number of police on the streets is at its lowest level in at least a decade.
The Legislative Fiscal Bureau has confirmed that according to their tracking of the Evers administration’s uses of ARPA funds, no funding has been directly allocated to law enforcement to date.
Jacque has also introduced a package of five bills that are on their way to the governor’s desk which would give Evers the opportunity to change that.
