Interesting article Blaine. Thks for posting.
The authors were more balanced than I gave them credit for. Although they touched on alot of reasons for increased budgets they still fail to realize how significant the real reasons are. The police services, or local politicians, do not have any significant control over these budgets. The real culprits may surprise you somewhat. They're at the provincial, federal, and judicial level. Even the local population must accept some responsibility as they demand, and receive, ever increasing levels of service from police.
Police Services need to learn to just say "NO" that is not a police function. As for increases in salary significantly greater than the rate of inflation: I wish!
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