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.
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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.
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.)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
