Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed doomsday budget is bad news for recent law school graduates hoping to become crime-fighters at one of the city’s district attorney’s offices.
All of the city’s DA’s – with the exception of Manhattan – are drastically scaling back the hiring of new assistant district attorneys, in hopes of saving enough bucks to ride out the current fiscal crisis.
In Queens, where DA Richard Brown normally hires 20 ADAs in the fall and 10 in the spring to replace those who leave the office, current plans are to take on no new prosecutors.
The Bronx is slashing their incoming crop from 50 to 10, while Brooklyn is taking in only 35 newcomers, down from the regular 60.