Governor Rick Snyder will present his budget proposal Wednesday including plans to tackle a deficit.
The Michigan Public Radio Network’s Rick Pluta tells us he will also propose some new spending on public safety.
A lot of the initiatives will focus on preventing and prosecuting sexual assaults. The governor will propose an initiative that targets university campuses, and more money to make sure rape kits are processed in a timely fashion.
Colonel Kriste Ettue is the Michigan State Police director.
“I think everyone would agree that sexual assault has to be dealt with, and there’s going to be a priority placed on those kinds of crimes,” she says.
The governor will also ask the Legislature to fund a new class of 75 Michigan State Police troopers. Most of the recruits would be sent to the state’s highest-crime cities -- Detroit. Flint, Pontiac, and Saginaw.