Many communities have volunteer fire departments. Can we import that idea into policing? Must every officer be an employee?
Volunteer anything is fighting words for Unions. When a school district had budget problems some parents decided to volunteer by helping out at the library, cleaning up the yard, etc. and the union I worked for stopped it because those were classified as union jobs. Even though the school didn’t hae money to pay for the jobs, the parents couldn’t volunteer. I couldn’t believe it.