"Lock your doors" Kentucky sheriff suspends law enforcement due to lack of funds
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https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2019/02/11/kentucky-sheriff-suspends-law-enforcement-activities/2835904002/
INEZ, Ky. — A Kentucky sheriff has told the local fiscal court he is suspending all law enforcement activities because of lack of funding.
The Lexington Herald-Leader reports, Martin County Sheriff John Kirk took the stage without invitation at a fiscal court meeting Monday. Kirk said his office is still owed a $75,000
payment due in January. He also complained that new obligations placed on his office will add $99,000 to his annual expenditures.
Kirk said he has laid off the bookkeeper and limited office hours to 20 hours a week. On his personal Facebook page, he posted that residents should, “lock your doors, load your guns
and get a biting, barking dog.”
A large part of the problem is a sharp decline in coal severance taxes hitting Eastern Kentucky. Local government economic assistance fund money to coal-producing counties has
dropped by 80 percent since fiscal year 2012. The fund returns a portion of state-collected mineral severance taxes to local governments.
Without the sheriff’s office responding to calls in Martin County, residents will have to rely on Kentucky State Police, which sometimes has just one officer patrolling multiple counties.
Clearly we need to depend on coal more in order to fund the police that keep people safe /s
Republican morality in action.
Don't worry I'm sure the benevolent hand of the free market will keep these people safe.
Just pay for the police to come to your house, whats the issue libertarians?
Domestic abuse calls are $20, search parties are $300/hr, and armed response is $1500 downpayment + $5 per round fired
To Protect the Finances of our Service
What's the problem?? Just pay your local mob for protection, the free market wins again!
its just like heavy metal, without the evil sphere.
You know, America being America, this will one day happen
It'd be too hard to organize and keep people safe, since burglars could just attack the nearby homes that don't pay, which will hurt your own property value. What would more likely happen is HOA's and gated communities that have police protection as part of the package that you have to pay into every week/month to live there.
doesn't this already happen in detroit?
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