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FreeJoe

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8. I'm not sure that they disagree

Reply to Luminous Animal (Reply #7)

Sun Nov 10, 2013, 05:46 PM

Nov 2013

If they were given the choice on a secret ballot between letting drugs head north and spending drug money on local law enforcement or raising taxes, which would they choose?

I remember when they raised the speed limit. Small towns fought it hard because they were going to have raise taxes to replace the lost fine revenue.

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Glad to see this in USA today: cops addicted to drug money [View all] Luminous Animal Nov 2013 OP

next will be the planting of drugs leftyohiolib Nov 2013 #1

Not "next". It's happening NOW. 99th_Monkey Nov 2013 #3

k/r Dawson Leery Nov 2013 #2

Catch money, not drugs FreeJoe Nov 2013 #4

Municipalities need to take control of their police Luminous Animal Nov 2013 #5

I don't doubt that the county commissioners... FreeJoe Nov 2013 #6

I am talking about citizens. Luminous Animal Nov 2013 #7

I'm not sure that they disagree FreeJoe Nov 2013 #8

Colorado License Plates otohara Nov 2013 #9

That might explain the guy forced to have multiple colon searches on grounds of "clenched buttocks" JHB Nov 2013 #10

I was pulled over in a fashion exactly described in the article last year. Initech Nov 2013 #11

K&R for more visibility. nt Mnemosyne Nov 2013 #12

K&R ....nt LisaLynne Nov 2013 #13

knr Th1onein Nov 2013 #14