Comments on: “Taxation by citation” https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/02/taxation-citation/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:59:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: Fox2! https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/02/taxation-citation/comment-page-1/#comment-319643 Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:59:19 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=50961#comment-319643 They should probably just contract with the county sheriff or police department for 80 hours per week of patrol and investigator time. Avoids a lot of the overhead that increases the cost of just two officers.

]]> By: February 13 roundup - Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/02/taxation-citation/comment-page-1/#comment-319577 Fri, 13 Feb 2015 05:30:11 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=50961#comment-319577 […] County woes? Not so fast [Jesse Walker] Would it help if the towns went broke? [Megan McArdle, related on “taxation by citation”] St. Louis Post-Dispatch has gathered its coverage of the […]

]]> By: Igor https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/02/taxation-citation/comment-page-1/#comment-319219 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 22:30:37 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=50961#comment-319219 Since they only need 2 officers (based on per capita formulae) one of them could be a canine… He’s cheaper, y’know…

]]> By: MattS https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/02/taxation-citation/comment-page-1/#comment-319145 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 04:46:11 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=50961#comment-319145 @D,

No, you’re wrong. Cool Valley covers only 0.47 square miles. They only need two slingshots and one bicycle to share between them.

]]> By: D https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/02/taxation-citation/comment-page-1/#comment-319130 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 00:21:07 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=50961#comment-319130 @MattS
“The national average for police officers per capita is 17 per 10K. So Cool Valley with a little over 1K pop should have 2 officers with assault rifles and an armored personnel carrier.”

Fixed it for you. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

]]> By: MattS https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/02/taxation-citation/comment-page-1/#comment-319098 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 15:10:13 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=50961#comment-319098 @Spodula,

The national average for police officers per capita is 17 per 10K. So Cool Valley with a little over 1K pop should have 2 officers.

]]> By: Walter Olson https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/02/taxation-citation/comment-page-1/#comment-319096 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:45:08 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=50961#comment-319096 Sorry, fault mine on typo, would reduce from 30 to 10 percent. Fixed now.

]]> By: Josh C https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/02/taxation-citation/comment-page-1/#comment-319095 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:36:17 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=50961#comment-319095 Are the proposed and current values in the first paragraph accurate?

]]> By: John Fembup https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/02/taxation-citation/comment-page-1/#comment-319093 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 13:28:08 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=50961#comment-319093 “I wouldn’t want to see (the) battered women’s fund cut; I wouldn’t want to see police training cut.”

That’s a nice car ya got there, mister. I wouldn’t want to see it . . . scratched and dented.

]]> By: marco73 https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/02/taxation-citation/comment-page-1/#comment-319091 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 13:10:21 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=50961#comment-319091 Yes, yes, if we don’t write big traffic tickets to those crazy speeders, then women will be battered in the streets.
Mayor Murphy is invoking the Washington Monument shutdown syndrome on a local scale. Always, always cut the most visible programs for the most needy.

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