It’s a bit hidden but essentially the Feds annually offer up matching funds and bonuses to Policing Departments for extra efforts in certain areas; in order for a Department to qualify for the extra funds they have to make a showing of having made so many busts or so many arrests or so many pounds of this substance or that or so many DWI arrests, etc. Thus we see the emergence of “Task Forces”, the DWI Task Force and the County Drug Task Force, and the Domestic Violence Task Force, the Animal Cruelty Task Force, etc. and if the Task Force makes it’s quota, the Department gets big bucks with which to buy new equipment, and cars and boats and helicopters, bullet proof vests, stun guns, and raises and bonuses and bullet proof vests and high hopes for next year! And after a few years of this? Voila, Welcome to Texas the “Incarceration State” We’ve built one, (a jail cell) For YOU! As my criminal law professor said, “Everybody is guilty of something, everyone should serve a little time.”
Ok. I thought that a bonus check was cut for each cop based on his arrest record.
Too much federal money and involvement in state and local issues in every field. It corrupts everything, and centralizes power. More of our tax money needs to be left with us, and kept in our respective states. Locals know what they want their police to do, and not do. They would fund accordingly.