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Old 02-20-2015, 07:37 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Who polices them? Why aren't the other municipalities upset that they have to pay for policing those that don't have police departments?
A lot of the smaller municipalities in that area, Sewickley Hills Borough, Emsworth Borough, Neville Township, Ben Avon Borough, Aleppo Township, Ben Avon Heights Borough and Kilbuck Township, all contract with Ohio Township for police services, and I'm sure there are financial considerations involved.
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Old 02-20-2015, 07:48 AM
 
Location: Awkward Manor
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A lot of the smaller municipalities in that area, Sewickley Hills Borough, Emsworth Borough, Neville Township, Ben Avon Borough, Aleppo Township, Ben Avon Heights Borough and Kilbuck Township, all contract with Ohio Township for police services, and I'm sure there are financial considerations involved.
So, why then could this not work on a larger scale? Certainly there would have to be financial considerations as well?
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Old 02-20-2015, 07:54 AM
 
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So, why then could this not work on a larger scale? Certainly there would have to be financial considerations as well?
Nothing is stopping the Pittsburgh PD from offering services to the municipalities in the Ohio Valley or elsewhere right now.

although I think they have their own problems with civil rights lawsuits and the like.
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Old 02-20-2015, 08:00 AM
 
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Nothing is stopping the Pittsburgh PD from offering services to the municipalities in the Ohio Valley or elsewhere right now.

although I think they have their own problems with civil rights lawsuits and the like.
I don't mean just police. Seems to me that some merging of municipality functions is okay but others are not.
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Old 02-20-2015, 08:00 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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and the surrounding police departments are certainly lily white and without fault and such.
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Old 02-20-2015, 08:14 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Morningside)
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One of my coworkers lives in Edgewood. He told me a few years back there was a proposal to consolidate the Edgewood PD not with Swissvale, but with Forest Hills and Braddock Hills - essentially showing that class/color trumped concise geography and shared road grids.
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Old 02-20-2015, 08:47 AM
 
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One of my coworkers lives in Edgewood. He told me a few years back there was a proposal to consolidate the Edgewood PD not with Swissvale, but with Forest Hills and Braddock Hills - essentially showing that class/color trumped concise geography and shared road grids.
Swissvale PD has had civil rights lawsuits but Braddock Hills and Forest Hills have not.

That might have something to do with it as well. I think the ethnic breakdown of Swissvale and Braddock Hills is about the same.


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Old 02-20-2015, 08:53 AM
 
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I think the ethnic breakdown of Swissvale and Braddock Hills is about the same.
The third might have been Wilkins Township actually, now that I think about it. I'll have to ask him.
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Old 02-20-2015, 09:48 AM
 
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Of course it makes sense to have fewer tiny governments and so many school districts. It would help with taxation and regional planning.
Who would it help? My taxes would likely increase dramatically.

And it would decrease control of services by local populations.

The only people that would be 'helped' are bureaucrats in a new regional administration and their clients.
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Old 02-20-2015, 09:56 AM
 
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Who would it help? My taxes would likely increase dramatically.

And it would decrease control of services by local populations.

The only people that would be 'helped' are bureaucrats in a new regional administration and their clients.
But if the services are already farmed out to other municipalities, like Ohio Township police as mentioned above, the local populations have already ceded control, haven't they?
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