February 6, 2009

Stimulus Resurrects Plan to Hire Local Police Officers - NYTimes.com

Stimulus Resurrects Plan to Hire Local Police Officers - NYTimes.com

Missing from this story is the reality that any police hired with stimulus $ which presumably don't go on forever must be paid eventually with local tax revenues. Seems foolish to train and add people temporarily that a city/town may not need or be able to afford when the stimulus $ dry up.

Mike Schirling police chief in Burlington was quoted in the story but his quote did not carry an endorsement of a proposal for temporary funding.

Michael E. Schirling, the police chief in Burlington, Vt., a city of 40,000, said in an interview that while he expected crime to rise because of the troubled economy, it had not done so yet. But Chief Schirling said that “the wave of economic troubles surely has the potential to drive not only crime but the stresses that drive people to alcohol and drug abuse, and that increases the volume of calls to law enforcement agencies.”

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