Florida Highway Patrol advocates push for funding amid staffing crisis

Florida Highway Patrol advocates want lawmakers to increase funding in the budget as the agency faces a trooper shortage that leaves them and the public vulnerable. “The public safety impact of having too few troopers and the companion problem of paying our troopers far too little is staggering. We have thousands of people dying on the roads every year. Literally thousands. We have eight or nine people dying on the roads every day,” Florida Highway Patrol Advisory Council member Paul Novack told News 6.