why do the police here have such fancy rides?

[4antares]

They have them because we pay for them. Since the county has determined that it is cheaper to subsidize police using private vehicles than to buy/operate/maintain a county fleet the police get a very generous subsidy of our tax dollars to buy and use their own rigs, most of which are much nicer than the tax paying citizens can afford. On the subject of tax dollars wasted by the police, what is up with the police being used as flaggers on construction jobs? Everywhere else I have ever lived uses guys who have some flagger training and work for much lower wages than police officers. I'm relatively certain this is union related but it does seem that the police could be utilized to be doing actual police work like catching criminals.

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