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| 2015-01-03 |
| The common reaction to a budget crisis is reducing personnel and cutting services. The focus of this article is to provide police agencies with an alternative to personnel and service reductions. This alternative could help the survival of a city and maintain or expand police service through generating new revenue streams as a proactive approach to meet the fiscal crisis of today and the uncertain future of tomorrow. |
| Posted by:Iblis |
| #7 Off the top of my head, none specifically. However there are others, like charges for repeated false security alarms or for repeated response calls to a locale where no response was necessary, required hiring of supernumerary or off duty cops for road construction/utility work, large public functions, etc. Also in some areas, volunteers have taken over a lot of routine schtuff like clerical work, vacation home checks, directing traffic at accidents, setting up mobile speed monitoring stations, and so forth. The big issues are pension and medical disability funding. Those definitely need to be restructured and the latter tightened. Good luck with that, tho. (I also find it amusing that the poster, who among other things, excoriated police departments for not hiring "geniuses," is now getting bent out of shape over some "out of the box" thinking, and a four-plus year old article at that.) |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-01-03 15:19 |
| #6 June 2010 article. How many of those listed were incorporated? |
| Posted by: Phemp Ulease2314 2015-01-03 14:50 |
| #5 When I applied for a CCW permit I wondered why the fee was nearly a hundred bucks. After all, the department has all the resources for a process that takes less than a few minutes. And that includes everything from the background check to making the physical card. My suspicions were confirmed that personnel costs were covered from the general budget and all the revenue goes into a slush fund. Last year they used a small portion to purchase a load of bitchin HDTV’s for the gym and break rooms. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2015-01-03 11:14 |
| #4 What? I thought Libertarians would love a for-profit model. /sarc(?) |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-01-03 08:58 |
| #3 Meet the new Sheriff of Nottingham. New boss same as the old boss. |
| Posted by: P2Kontheroad 2015-01-03 08:38 |
| #2 |
| Posted by: Snakes Thush8311 2015-01-03 07:01 |
| #1 Bronze and Gold neighborhood policing plans ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-03 02:50 |