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Law Enforcement Funding
Police departments, along with other urgent and vital agencies like fire departments and other public safety divsions, enjoy the luxury of being among the last departments to be cut when funding is tight due to the necessity of keeping fire and crime prevention agencies in full effect. That being said, police departments can absolutely use other means other than tax dollars to fund their efforts, and often at the expense of criminals. While there can be limits, it is entirely possible and practical to fund police activities and duties without using public dollars and many are already in full effect in many departments.
One quick and easy to fund police activities is to seize assets used in the commission of felonious behavior and auction it off to the highest bidder. The proceeds can then be used to fund police activities. Examples of items that can be seized are monies used or retrieved via the drug trade, cars, houses, etc. However, there should be limits to this. Guns and other weapons should not be resold to the public and instead should be destroyed when the items are no longer needed for evidence. Houses and cars should be seized carefully because the people who actually own the cars might not be the people committing the crimes. However, if the person who owns the property knows full well...
Loans and the need to get to a standard job should matter not (O'Matz, 2013)
Another way to raise funds is to raise the fees for diversions for crimes. This allows people to get a monetary slap on the wrist rather than an ongoing criminal conviction on one's record and the money can be procured with little to no overhead costs associated with collecting the money. It can also perhaps lower recidivism and crime rates in general and this would lower the need for funds of any sort for police activities and efforts. For more serious crimes, diversions should be eschewed in favor of restitution above and beyond the monetary costs of crimes and the excess can go to the government. For example, if an criminal causes $500 in damage during a crime, the criminal can be made to pay $1,000 so that the victim is made whole and the police department gains $500 in revenue on top of that. All that is necessary to avoid this sort of "tax" is to not break the law, so it is not hard to defend and justify.
Another way to generate revenue, and something else that is already done by a lot of police departments, is to sell off stripped police cars and other outdated or equipment that is alright for civilians to own and operate. Police cars that have the sirens and other non-civilian…
References
O'Brien, Tim. "Speeding ticket plea plan on fast track." Times Union. N.p., 23 Jan. 2013. Web. 29 Nov. 2013. <http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Speeding-ticket-plea-plan-on-fast-track-4215507.php>.
O'Matz, Meagan. "Cops. Cash. Cocaine. How Sunrise police make millions selling drugs. - Sun Sentinel." Sun Sentinel. N.p., 29 Nov. 2013. Web. 29 Nov. 2013. <http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-sunrise-cops-money-selling-drugs-1006,0,497004.htmlpage>.
Petke, Craig. "Fleets of sleek new police cruisers roll in to replace Crown Vic." Central Kentucky News. N.p., 28 June 2013. Web. 29 Nov. 2013.
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