Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war
by joesmo on Monday June 06, 2016 @11:20AM
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Actually there is one way: civil asset forfeiture. Then it also pays for things your PD absolutely needs to do its job like margarita machines, etc.
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Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war
by dragonwriter on Monday June 06, 2016 @02:14PM
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Most states don't allow local PDs to keep forfeiture proceeds from state-law forfeitures; the federal government allowed local jurisdictions involved in federal-law forfeitures to keep a large portion (80%) of the assets, but the standards for that program were made more restrictive a few years back, and it was suspended entirely last December (notionally, at least, as a cost saving measure), so right now there's really no way for a local PD to raise funds by way of forfeiture.