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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 5481397" data-attributes="member: 58386">If you don&#039;t live in one of those &quot;big liberal cities&quot; and pay nothing in the way of taxes into them then who are you or for that matter I&nbsp; to be the judge of how they spend their money?Here&#039;s an example and granted it&#039;s just one example of the challenges facing municipal police forces.I live in a township. 85 square miles population about 7,000. It&#039;s police department is funded by means of real estate taxes. Same goes for the adjoining borough. Population around 5800. Police department same funding source. Recently both the township and the borough&#039;s real estate tax millage rate reached the maximum allowed by law.&nbsp; No longer enough to even begin to meeting&nbsp; the departments of both municipalities funding needs. To raise the millage above the maximum required going to court or a voter referendum. Neither of which was likely to be approved..This left the two municipalities with no other choice but to form a regional police department merging the two making coverage that much thinner and resources to conduct investigations that much harder to come by. Again you get what you pay for but nothing more.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 5481397, member: 58386"] If you don't live in one of those "big liberal cities" and pay nothing in the way of taxes into them then who are you or for that matter I to be the judge of how they spend their money? Here's an example and granted it's just one example of the challenges facing municipal police forces. I live in a township. 85 square miles population about 7,000. It's police department is funded by means of real estate taxes. Same goes for the adjoining borough. Population around 5800. Police department same funding source. Recently both the township and the borough's real estate tax millage rate reached the maximum allowed by law. No longer enough to even begin to meeting the departments of both municipalities funding needs. To raise the millage above the maximum required going to court or a voter referendum. Neither of which was likely to be approved.. This left the two municipalities with no other choice but to form a regional police department merging the two making coverage that much thinner and resources to conduct investigations that much harder to come by. Again you get what you pay for but nothing more. [/QUOTE]

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