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Fire11
04-02-2011, 07:13 PM
The United States has lost over 42,000 factories since 2001

#1 The second most dangerous city in the United States - Camden, New Jersey - is
about to lay off about half its police.

#2 The city of Newark, New Jersey laid off 13 percent of its police force just
last week.

#3 Of 315 municipalities the New Jersey State Policemen's union recently
surveyed, more than half indicated that they were planning to lay off police
officers.

#10 Oakland, California Police Chief Anthony Batts has announced that due to
severe budget cuts there are a number of crimes that his department will simply
not be able to respond to any longer. The crimes that the Oakland police will no
longer be responding to include grand theft, burglary, car wrecks, identity
theft and vandalism.

#9 Many of the police in Arizona that patrol communities near the border with
Mexico say that they are "outmanned" and "outgunned" and now live in fear of
being taken out by drug cartel assassins.

#4 At least 1000 people now live in the 200 miles of flood tunnels that exist
under the city of Las Vegas.

#5 All over America, asphalt roads are being ground up and are being replaced
with gravel because it is cheaper to maintain. The state of South Dakota has
transformed over 100 miles of asphalt road into gravel over the past year, and
38 out of the 83 counties in the state of Michigan have transformed at least
some of their asphalt roads into gravel roads.

#6 The city of San Jose, California recently laid off 49 firefighters.

#7 Over the past year, approximately 100 of New York's state parks and historic
sites have had to cut services and reduce hours.

#8 In 2009 alone, approximately 4 million more Americans joined the ranks of the
poor.

#11 One out of every six Americans is now enrolled in at least one anti-poverty
program run by the federal government.

#12 The state of Illinois is so far behind on its bills that not even schools
and essential social services are getting their money on time.

#13 The sheriff's department in Ashtabula County, Ohio has been slashed from 112
to 49 deputies, and there is now just one vehicle remaining to patrol all 720
square miles of the county.

#14 In a desperate attempt to save money, the city of Colorado Springs turned
off a third of its streetlights and put its police helicopters up for auction.

#15 According to one recent study, approximately 21 percent of all children in
the United States are living below the poverty line in 2010.

#16 In Georgia, the county of Clayton recently eliminated its entire public bus
system in order to save 8 million dollars.

#17 Things have gotten so bad in Stockton, California that the police union put
up a billboard with the following message: "Welcome to the 2nd most dangerous
city in California. Stop laying off cops."

#18 Major cities such as Philadelphia, Baltimore and Sacramento have instituted
"rolling brownouts" in which various city fire stations are shut down on a
rotating basis. So if you live in one of those cities and you have a fire, you
had better hope that your local fire station is not scheduled for a "brownout"
that day.

heavenlyboy34
04-02-2011, 07:15 PM
...and the fewer thugs in blue, the better.

acptulsa
04-02-2011, 07:15 PM
Link to the source or it didn't happen.

And please tell me you didn't just cut and paste the entirety of a copyrighted piece.

AGRP
04-02-2011, 07:20 PM
Factories?

PreDeadMan
04-02-2011, 09:01 PM
Good let them work in the private sector .....

messana
04-02-2011, 09:09 PM
#10 Oakland, California Police Chief Anthony Batts has announced that due to
severe budget cuts there are a number of crimes that his department will simply
not be able to respond to any longer. The crimes that the Oakland police will no
longer be responding to include grand theft, burglary, car wrecks, identity
theft and vandalism.

But smoking pot.....

TheNcredibleEgg
04-02-2011, 09:12 PM
Well -


NEW YORK (Reuters) – Camden, New Jersey, the nation's most crime-ridden small city, on Friday welcomed back 55 police officers and 31 firefighters laid off in January because of lack of funding.

Mayor Dana Redd was able to rehire the 86 public safety workers after receiving $2.5 million in state and federal funds.



- there goes the layoffs from #1 on your list.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110401/us_nm/us_camden_police

thetruthhurtsthefed
04-02-2011, 09:43 PM
good. if they are so eager to carry a gun and pull the trigger join the military and ship out to Afghanistan or iraq. Pull that trigger o'er there, careful tho, the citizens there shoot back and are not brainwashed sheep like in the UsSa

Fire11
04-02-2011, 09:48 PM
there goes the layoffs from #1 on your list.
What about this:

#14 In a desperate attempt to save money, the city of Colorado Springs turned off a third of its streetlights and put its police helicopters up for auction.

aGameOfThrones
04-03-2011, 12:21 AM
Nation's most dangerous small city rehires police (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/01/us-camden-police-idUSTRE7307E020110401)


Mayor Dana Redd was able to rehire the 86 public safety workers after receiving $2.5 million in state and federal funds.

pcosmar
04-03-2011, 08:10 AM
Finally some good news. But it is not "USA laying off some its Police " from your title. It is cities that can't afford to continue to support these positions.


What about this:

#14 In a desperate attempt to save money, the city of Colorado Springs turned off a third of its streetlights and put its police helicopters up for auction.

More good news for them.
Lay off more. Close some prisons too. Then welfare office, and petty bureaucrats in every state run office.
But these are state offices, propped up by the federal government.

I really want to see the Federal Jobs go. DHS TSA DEA FDA FBI CIA IRS ATF etc

acptulsa
04-03-2011, 08:14 AM
I really want to see the Federal Jobs go. DHS TSA DEA FDA FBI CIA IRS ATF etc


"Never was a country in the throes of more capital letters than the old U.S.A., but we still haven't sent out the S.O.S."--Will Rogers

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Kludge
04-03-2011, 08:16 AM
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/24-signs-that-all-of-america-is-becoming-just-like-detroit-a-rotting-post-industrial-post-apocalyptic-wasteland appears to be the source with links to stories to back up the claims.

Freedom 4 all
04-03-2011, 08:29 AM
In an effort be fair to these mythological "good cops" they should only lay off those cops who have engaged in brutality or conspiracy to cover up brutality. That should scale the force back to maybe 25% of what it is now, and we'd all be a hell of a lot safer.

acptulsa
04-03-2011, 08:34 AM
Are you advocating basing these decisions on merit? The Union will get you for that.

Fire11
04-03-2011, 10:32 AM
I really want to see the Federal Jobs go. DHS TSA DEA FDA FBI CIA IRS ATF etc
I agree 100%.

HOLLYWOOD
04-03-2011, 11:28 AM
In many of these communities/cities that are laying-off police... It's was the choice of the Police Unions and their contracts no to compromise. Instead of being paid less with possible cuts in benefits and retirement packages, the unions, like a majority of other government worker unions, elected to engorge themselves at the community's expense and/or crime/safety.

www.PolicePay.net "Where we suck every cent possible out of communities and states"

doodle
04-03-2011, 11:39 AM
Look at the bright side, there are more police jobs in Iraq and Afghanistan now:

http://www.alljobsinafghanistan.com/find_law_enforcement_security_jobs_in_afghanistan_ 1061.html

http://www.dyncorprecruiting.com/ext/cojobs.asp?From=1&Keyword=&Category=&Location=1

Sola_Fide
04-03-2011, 11:56 AM
Great! The less police, the more liberty.

AFPVet
04-03-2011, 12:42 PM
Finally some good news. But it is not "USA laying off some its Police " from your title. It is cities that can't afford to continue to support these positions.



More good news for them.
Lay off more. Close some prisons too. Then welfare office, and petty bureaucrats in every state run office.
But these are state offices, propped up by the federal government.

I really want to see the Federal Jobs go. DHS TSA DEA FDA FBI CIA IRS ATF etc

Exactly.... Besides, the Militia is supposed to do what these agencies are doing. Now aside from the U.S. Marshals and Secret Service which have specific roles. Secret Service: protection, counterfeiting and U.S. Marshals: court security, protection and transportation of prisoners.

Icymudpuppy
04-03-2011, 01:12 PM
#10 Oakland, California Police Chief Anthony Batts has announced that due to
severe budget cuts there are a number of crimes that his department will simply
not be able to respond to any longer. The crimes that the Oakland police will no
longer be responding to include grand theft, burglary, car wrecks, identity
theft and vandalism.


But smoking pot.....

That was my first thought, too. Stop investigation real crimes with victims and property loss, no signs of stopping enforcement of victimless non-crimes.