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Your stuck on the issues of cost....not that it is not important but how does it relate to your generalization that cops are no good. You make it sound so clinical when you talk about this subject and that is unfair because cops are human too.

If cost is your issue then that's fine but if you want to really get to the heart of the way our local government is spending our money then you must include other organizations as well. Schools for one.....our kids are not being taught like they should be.....this of course leaves kids open to all kinds of misfortune and that includes crimes. A large part of the crimes today are committed by children and who as a whole suffers for this....society. Kids today have no concept of accountability and I blame that fact squarely on the parents.

Starting to get off track here......getting back to police officers.....do yourself a huge favor and get involved in your local police department. Learn exactly what really goes on behind the scenes.....I can almost guarantee that you will gain a better understanding and a new found respect as well.

Everybody is human. Some humans willingly, even gleefully, take part in corrupt, counterproductive, anti-freedom, tax-eating enterprises.

As you point our, public schools suck. Almost all conservatives know this. What many don't know, but is becoming increasingly obvious, is that police departments have gotten as bad as public schools, and in some cases worse.

As I already pointed out I am invovled in my local PD. As with most towns, my town now has a budget crisis. Two cops are leaving for other PDs and we won't have to have a layoff because our chief listens to our selectmen when they say the sh*tstorm is coming. Now if we could only get our schools to realize they don't need so freakin many people to "counsel" kids and not threaten the town with laying off teachers before they touch the fat in their budgets.