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Philadelphia gas station owner hires heavily armed guards to protect business
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"Peel" doesn't do fire. Member municipalities do.
Here's a good summary of first responder money in Peel. As expected the mafia takes money vastly exceeding their relative benefit.
Peel tax dollars flow disproportionately to police, while fire and paramedics struggle
For the past six years, the operating budgets of police, fire and paramedics in Peel have all grown significantly.
thepointer.com
Hookers for politicians?
Wish I could tell you - first time I've seen that too.
DownUnder
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"Peel" doesn't do fire. Member municipalities do.
Here's a good summary of first responder money in Peel. As expected the mafia takes money vastly exceeding their relative benefit.
Peel tax dollars flow disproportionately to police, while fire and paramedics struggle
For the past six years, the operating budgets of police, fire and paramedics in Peel have all grown significantly.
Police budget keeps going up but crime never goes down? Seems the money is better invested elsewhere.
Police salaries are increasing at a completely unsustainable rate. We need more eyes on the road, not higher paid eyes. Public sector unions are pushing the system to the brink of collapse. They do not care about policing or teaching, just maximum income for the union.
Yeah I seem to have found the error in my math ... seems the property taxes I pay is 41% for Peel Region (rest is to education & the municipalities in Peel). From that 41% that Peel gets, 41% of that goes to the police so about half is right.
Dirty Frank
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They got us more eyes on the road too bad that they hired a third party with their red light cameras to do the job.
Surprised about controversy for armed guards protecting a gas station if memory serves some Detroit area stations were doing the same back in the 80's because of the proliferation of car jacking in the city.
God forbid you say that out loud to the police. They need MORE money to do their jobs. Not less.
Don't you know. Less money for police and we automatically become the wild wild west. /s
sburns
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Seems to be the same story for most tax payer supported positions. Politicians, education, healthcare...where the F does all the money go.
My salary
It gets spent by the weasels. If you're in management the bigger your staff the more you make so find excuses to hire more people.
In some cases there are new needs. I never heard of teacher's assistants. Back then you were either smart or stupid and were streamed accordingly. A lot of people with dyslexia were labeled retarded. ADD's were trouble makers. Austistic people at any level were dunces.
So many never realized their potential. Society as a whole suffered.
The problem is the general public thinks the government has money. They hear "We the XYZ party is going to spend XXXX billion on project ABC and they think the XYZ party is finding the money in some secret pocket. The true statement is that the XYZ party is going to spend XX dollars from each and every taxpayer's pocket. But the budget will take care of itself.
With higher interest rates doesn't the government debt cost more? Just slipping that in.
The former CEO of Home Depot has estimated that shop lifting and theft has risen to the point that is affecting earnings. Add the armed gas station situation and general tension and I wonder if we're heading for some Mad Max apocalyptic world. Brazen robbery is an understatement.
Amazon aims to outsell Walmart in a few years which is quite possible if more people cocoon and shop online. Club shootings, school shootings, carjackings don't help.
Policing for profit ((Speed traps) diverts staff from crime investigations but is needed to balance budgets.
Are we catching up to the third world countries with crime based on income spreads.
The richest person in the world runs Louis Vuitton, a luxury fashion brand. Buy your SO a $4,000 purse for Christmas.
This world is so screwed up.
Amazon aims to outsell Walmart in a few years which is quite possible if more people cocoon and shop online. Club shootings, school shootings, carjackings don't help.
Policing for profit ((Speed traps) diverts staff from crime investigations but is needed to balance budgets.
Are we catching up to the third world countries with crime based on income spreads.
The richest person in the world runs Louis Vuitton, a luxury fashion brand. Buy your SO a $4,000 purse for Christmas.
This world is so screwed up.
LCBO has an open policy that employees do not stop thefts. If cops bother to show up and arrest the person that has stolen from the store every day for the past month, courts have them out in the afternoon and they are back stealing from the store by dinner. The numbers are really big. Some of the frequent fliers have stolen well into six figures per person.
Back to the consumers distributing model? Fill out your form, pay and then they hand you a case? Property theft is high reward, low risk (if you already have a record, one more charge doesn't really matter and you will see little punishment).
I fully understand.
One Home Depot security video (USA) showed an employee non-violently try to stop a guy stealing a cart full of merchandise. The employee was pushed back, falling and striking his head. He died in hospital.
The same could happen if a porch pirate was challenged.
Armed guards at Home Depot or similar stores could trigger a fire fight with numerous innocent casualties.
One US state has introduced legislation to increase prison times for theft in a country that already holds the worlds record for percent of population in jail. The bigger hammer approach.
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