I think that Mitch Roth is doing a great job in light of minimal resources, horrible interagency communication, and a massive caseload.  Sarah is right that there are too many contempt of court and traffic violation cases clogging the courts.  We need to prioritize the victim crimes.  Also on Big Island because there are so many cases of theft it seems the police don't follow up unless they have a hands on, in person arrest.  They know the prosecutor won't files charges unless it's an open and shut case because of the backlog.  It's a horrible cycle.  Mr. Roth recently spoke on HPR about a massively successful intervention program for young offenders. He's trying to expand it to West Hawaii.  It's about ten times more effective then the current juvenile hall.  He wants faster repercussions for offenders. We just have a lot of crime for our size.  We've got a whole traffic division now writing tickets to motorists, maybe those police patrol and respond to calls instead of ticketing?