Governor Maximiliano Pullaro delivered a strong statement, emphasizing that the authorities of Santa Fe province are not willing to coexist with crime. "We did not come to coexist with crime. We did not come to make deals," he stated, adding that the "democratic authority without hesitation" is sending a message to all of Argentina. In this sense, he launched a stern warning: "They did not achieve it and they are not going to achieve it because the people of Santa Fe have already decided not to take a single step back." To back his security policy and demonstrate support for the police force, the governor enumerated the resources injected into the institution since he took over a situation he described as "extremely critical": 2,000 new officers have been deployed to the streets, the purchase of 2,500 police vehicles has been completed, and the network of video surveillance has been expanded with 5,000 cameras in Rosario and 2,000 in the capital, supported by the "Lince" artificial intelligence system for criminal investigations. "There is no security on the streets if there is no control in the prisons," the governor added, also justifying the investment of 119 billion pesos in penitentiary infrastructure. As a balance of this management method, Pullaro highlighted the plummet of urban violence by noting that at this point in 2023, 65 homicides were recorded, while so far this year only 15 are counted. "From the beginning, we understood them as fair," he acknowledged regarding the police officers' requests, and detailed that the Executive Branch adopted measures to "improve working conditions without affecting the security plan that we are going to deepen." However, Pullaro was blunt in pointing at the factions that attempted to capitalize on the conflict on the streets: "They wanted to use a legitimate claim to return to the dark past of Santa Fe, to regain privileges."
