“Cutting all PD budgets by 30% should help stop a bunch of this wasteful nonsense.
/johnny”
Yeah, and it might avert more municipal bankruptcies too. The recent municipal bankruptcies here in California, were driven almost exclusively by the ongoing costs of “public safety employees.” Vallejo, which “went through bankruptcy” and “emerged” did not address the 80% of their budget that the cops and FFs represented. And now they will probably go bankrupt again as a consequence. You tell me just how it makes any sense for a police Lieutenant to make $310,000 a year? And the FF’s are worse because they just lay around for the most part, eating on our dime “at the house,” and work the “time off scandal” to double their annual pay. Their motto: “We eat until we’re sleepy, then sleep until we’re hungry.” In our county, the only people who make more money than the Sheriff’s Deputies and the FFs are the doctors at the county hospital whose names you can’t pronounce!
Wait for the lawsuit payout on this.
And that’s just one of many.