On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote:
> FWIW, it's has been common for a long time among the small cities in > Los Angeles County to subcontract out their police force to the L.A. > County Sheriff's Department. Others subcontract out enforcement to the > Los Angeles (City) Police Department. (Last time I checked, the LASD > was worse than the LAPD. Some small-city departments are even worse.) Seeing how much worse, I can understand the impetus behind contracting out: "... [T]hat employer, the Maywood, California Police Department, is being liquidated. In fact, the entire municipal government of Maywood, a Los Angeles suburb of roughly 40,000 people, is being dissolved on account of bankruptcy. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will provide law enforcement coverage to Maywood, and a rump city council will coordinate delivery of services provided by neighboring Bell. "In Maywood, as elsewhere, the economic crash has choked off the tax revenue on which the municipal government subsists. The town is currently facing a $450,000 deficit. But what finally broke the city, reports the Los Angeles Times, was the decision by the California Joint Powers Insurance Authority to terminate 'general liability and workers' compensation coverage because the city posed too high a risk.' "More specifically, the city was un-insurable because of 'a large number of claims filed against the police.' This is because the department (which also afflicted a neighboring town called Cudahy) had become the police equivalent of The Island of Misfit Toys – a sanctuary city for criminals in state-issued costumes." http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w154.html -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
