Police Worry that Budget Cuts Will Hinder Their Ability to Fight Back
In every recession since the 1950s, crime as gone hand and hand with the economic decline (source: news.yahoo.com). Now amidst budget cuts for many police departments across the country police agencies say that crime is once again raising as the economy falls and their ability to fight back may be hindered.
With a bad economy come lost jobs, lost savings and lost pride. People grow increasingly desperate and many times will turn to crime to try to make ends meet. But along with that comes the career criminals who can now, thanks to budget cuts, commit crimes at a more successful rate as police departments are literally "hand cuffed" when it comes to mounting an offensive or a defensive.
With a usual budget, police departments are able to focus overtime hours and special task forces to concentrate on high crime areas. Now that many police departments across America are being forced to cut back, a great deal of special programs aimed at combating these high crime areas will have to suffer (source: news.yahoo.com).
How bad is it?
Of 233 police agencies surveyed by Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) 63 percent of the departments were planning budget cuts for the next fiscal year. PERF said on average these agencies planned on cutting their budgets by about 6.24 percent and many of the agencies have already preformed cuts recently. On the flip side a staggering 44 percent of the agencies surveyed said they had seen an increase in crime (source: news.yahoo.com).
The overall budget cuts really speak to how bad the economy is getting as police funding is generally the last thing to suffer. Local agencies and governments are usually reluctant to cut funds because public safety is usual viewed as a top priority (source; News.yahoo.com).
The PERF report showed exactly where the increase in crime was coming from as well. Of the 100 agencies that linked crime increasing to the economic crisis, 39 percent said they had seen an increase in robberies, 32 percent a rise in burglaries and 40 percent an increase in thefts from vehicles (source: news.yahoo.com). But a solution does not seem forthcoming."
This article was written a year ago. We now have the perfect storm to set up the "National Police Force".
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Is a Special Police Force (SPF) needed? If so, what for?
Check post #25.
I believe that cutting local police budgets with crime rising in a recession is wrong.
This may be the manipulation needed to justify SPF since the regular police force “can’t keep the citizenry SAFE!”
Cut spending on wasteful liberal programs to fund the police!
I believe the (SPF) is one of the last pieces, if not the last, in putting the Communist take-over puzzle together. Communists always need to protect themselves from the people, FIRST!
Hope. Change.
For the sake of their cmmunities and their families, as well as themselves, the "police" should be thinking long and hard about which side the are really on.
Personally, I hope they ollectively reach the rational decision and not fight among themselves.
That would make it too easy.
Historically, decorated lamposts are an effective and long lasting remedy.
It's been my experience that police, fire-protection and garbage-collection are the first to suffer, used as clubs to bludgeon the populace into accepting tax hikes.
The never lay-off the Deputy Junior Assistant Vice-Principals down at the local Emporium of Education.