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Since when has revenue been a concern? I thought it was always spending (at least the tea partiers say so).
Um, revenues were always a concern.. The Tea Partiers are concerned about spending MORE than revenues. Do you really need every posting explained to you?
Um, revenues were always a concern.. The Tea Partiers are concerned about spending MORE than revenues. Do you really need every posting explained to you?
Would you mind pointing me to your last post where you show a concern with revenue? We will use it to go further in this debate.
The article starts off with a small town in Texas but goes on to list other small towns across the US where the police dept has been furloughed or disbanded.
Residents of Alto, Texas, Brace for Crime Spike After City Furloughs Police Force - WSJ.com
City Council members sent the police home when they decided they couldn't afford them.
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Half Moon Bay, Calif., is now patrolled by the San Mateo Sheriff's Office after city government earlier this month dissolved the local department to save more than $500,000 a year. Nazareth Borough, Pa., is negotiating a contract for public-safety services with a regional force. In Wenonah, N.J., voters will decide in November whether to eliminate its seven-officer force and have another municipality assume its policing."
Apparently the cops weren't doing their job if the crime rate went up in Alto last year compared to the year before. We don't have a local police force in many towns around here. Sheriff rolls through like they have for years. Fact is if your waiting on the cops to protect you then your out of luck. By the time they get there the crime is over. And Half Moon Bay. My brother in law lives there and most have so much money they don't know what to do with it all. If they wanted a police force they could pay for it ten times over. I guess they don't want it. He's on the city council there too.
This needs to happen more in smaller communities. Why does a town of 1200 people need 5 cops, vehicles, office space, perhaps a jail? The citizens are already paying for the county sherrif. In many small towns, law enforcement is about revenue generation, not crime prevention.
The article starts off with a small town in Texas but goes on to list other small towns across the US where the police dept has been furloughed or disbanded.
Residents of Alto, Texas, Brace for Crime Spike After City Furloughs Police Force - WSJ.com
City Council members sent the police home when they decided they couldn't afford them.
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Half Moon Bay, Calif., is now patrolled by the San Mateo Sheriff's Office after city government earlier this month dissolved the local department to save more than $500,000 a year. Nazareth Borough, Pa., is negotiating a contract for public-safety services with a regional force. In Wenonah, N.J., voters will decide in November whether to eliminate its seven-officer force and have another municipality assume its policing."
However.....too big to fail.... banks, auto makers, etc. get billions and survive...courtesy of Fedzilla....who determines which will live or die.
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