Posted on 12/08/2024 11:36:38 AM PST by massmike
The Canton police chief is requesting more than $750,000 to add new vehicles, a mobile firing range to lessen quality-of-life disturbances, and ballistic shields to protect officers when encountering an active shooter.
Chief Helena Rafferty made her pitch to the Select Board for three requests totaling $760,986 to be budgeted with capital funding: the mobile firing range at the top at $392,786, four new marked vehicles at $284,000, and nine ballistic shields with ports at $84,200, Rafferty said. The chief is also looking to reallocate $117,064 for a new record management system.
The Select Board in late June approved a one-year contract, instead of three, for Helena Rafferty who has led the police department since being promoted in June 2022. Members emphasized how the dust needs to settle from the Karen Read and Sandra Birchmore cases and cited an ongoing $200,000 audit of the department.
Rafferty, who made $212,524.54 in total pay last year, finds herself in own legal issues after crashing into and injuring a Wrentham resident in February.
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Mobile firing range.
I have shot in them.
As a police training instructor for several decades. I found them cramped and of limited training value.
That is of course unless one has no place else to shoot.
A indoor fit site not to hard.
A outdoor site more difficult.
Just use silencers./s
Yeah...we’re talking MA. I remember when that asshat McDermott shot up his office with a shotgun. Someone had previously called him in because they saw him out shooting. Around here, there are plenty of places where shooting would go unnoticed, unless it was unsafe, or the reporting party was an uber-Karen. I can’t imagine that they have an open-air, outdoor shooting range in a populated area of MA.
Just did a quick search. Looks like lots of places would work. Maybe the cops don’t want to associate with the smelly Walmart people.
“I want a mobile firing range too.”
Isn’t that what a cop car is?
Canton and Stoughton cops are dirty, dirty, dirty, right?
And $9K ballistic shields. I guess with enough of them you could form a phalanx, and the whole force could hide behind them.
After a cursory performance review, Chief, we’re authorizing an additional 2 walkie talkies, 3 electric scooters and a Hopalong Cassidy cap gun set with authentic imitation leather holsters.
A case could be made that they are satanic.
Wikipedia says the median household income in Canton in 2010 was 109,260, for the U.S. the same year is was $50,046. Not made of money, but hardly a poor place. I worked in Canton around 1980. It's a very pleasant place.
“”a mobile firing range to lessen quality-of-life disturbances””
What in the dickens does that mean - “lessen quality of life disturbances”? Where is the firing range now - in people’s backyards?
Ballistic Shields at $9,355.56 EACH ?!?!?!
WTF ARE THEY MADE OUT OF ?!?!?!?
Gold plated Titanium ?
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