it may have been a blue law in the beginning that was kept for budget reason
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Ben Doom
  To: CF-Community
  Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 9:58 AM
  Subject: Re: Religious oppression in action

  It does?  I missed the connection between police working overtime and
  blue laws.

  --Ben

  brobborb wrote:
  > B makes alot of sense! heh

  >   b) This is actually more related to your situation.  Police Officers are
  >   slated to work x number of hours.  Any hours beyond is booked as
  > overtime.
  >   State governments are doing everything possible to control the number of
  >   overtime hours they would have to pay out.  It would be a huge public
  >   relations disaster if the decision makers came out and said, "We will
  >   reduce police protection in order to balance the budget."  But that is a
  >   huge part of the decision.  They turn a bad situation into a good by
  >   claiming they are doing it for religious reasons which makes the
  > masses happy.
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