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Increased budget next year.
by kls 16y ago
Increased budget next year.
- jbooth 16y agoThese departments in every state have been getting slashed for the last 10 years, actually.
- kls 16y agoYes it was more of a guess than anything substantiated. Feel free to down-vote it. It deserves it.
- jbooth 16y agoThanks. Big pet peeve of mine. Pretty much all state and local-run services have had a hatchet taken to them every single year for the last 10 years, and then people have the gall to get angry at the idea of paying people for public service, or advocate for cutting more teachers/cops/firefighters/social workers because quote "government is too big". Cut somewhere else, these people actually do things.
- pbhjpbhj 16y agoSo not an increased budget but instead more statistics in the fight to retain their current headcount?
- jbooth 16y agoNow you're talking. Maybe if these guys were funded to a reasonable, lean level (as opposed to complete funding starvation), we'd get better behavior. If you compare their funding level compared to, say, drug enforcement, it's clear that we're a little misbalanced. "Catching the crooks" always sells better than "keeping kids out of juvie so they don't become crooks", no matter which one is more cost-effective.