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Joseph M. McKirahan
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life, I believe there are very few expectations by the person on the
other end of the phone. When law enforcement agencies make budget
cuts to manpower and training, it puts citizens and officers at risk! Two
the given situation. In this paper I will identify how decreasing law
ever shrinking budget puts the lives of officers and the safety of
citizens at risk.
public approval, the public sector has taken numerous financial hits.
City and county budgets have been slashed from stem to stern. One of
the largest line items on any budget is personnel, and no one wants to
be known as the chief or sheriff who laid off employees. A very easy,
short term, solution to this problem is not filling current vacancies and
approved positions and not filling retirements places both the citizen
don't understand why you would cut public safety in such a harsh
way," said Jones. "You put peoples' lives in danger. People die when we
are not able to do our job." 122 police officers will be loosing their jobs
on the road at any given time. Many factors come in to play, call
agencies are forced to change this equation in order to fit the current
police structure into the budget, it places a strain on the entire system.
put into an area. This creates a risk to the public because it will “thin
out the herd” as far as officers on the street. It has been proven in the
critically ill patient. Police officers are, very often, the first ones to
arrive on scene.
cases, this puts the citizen at great risk. I personally have been the
able to use the AED to bring back a heart rate to the patient. All the
medical personnel whom I spoke with said that even minutes later, and
it would have been too late and the patient would have probably lost
their life.
Many times calls for service are fueled by some type of violent
officers in St. Joseph County are concerned that budget cuts will put
both citizens and officers lives at risk. Sheriff Frank Canarecci said, “
cutting $1.2 million would mean fewer officers on the street and
response times are going to be down, and your backup time is going to
across the country are being forced to cut manpower, then they are
Congress passed the Safe Streets Act of 1968. (Connolly, 2008) Many
of the skills law enforcement officer’s posses are tangible and need to
has cut back on training to the point of only providing the state
results. Tactics and Training expert, Dave Grossi, wrote in an article for
training and experience and apply what they have learned to high-
stress situations which could put the officer, and or, the public at risk if
unrest, social and economic turmoil, require the best training available.
positions not being filled, there is not media driven publicity regarding
not be felt for years. Many governments play the odds, “what are the
odds that a citizen or a officer will lose their life because of our cut
backs?” Because many budget makers are not on the front lines, they
issues is taxes, and because budgets are due at or around the same
jerk reaction to a budget crisis. If citizens knew the streets had less
police officers because they did not have to pay an extra $5 to $10 per
response time. That is why law enforcement and citizens are put at risk
and sisters to back me up, and make sure we all return home safe.
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