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If this is correct, be 'careful out there'. My brother has to deal with the police department budget in a rather wealthy suburb of Chicago. They have a 'fund' to help tide them through, but he says they're going through it fast. The revenues are down 10% and falling. They aren't close to funding the approved budget, and it's January.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1363276.html
Ticket writing rises in a slump, study finds
Steve Harrison, Charlotte Observer
The economy is in the toilet. So do yourself a favor and ease up on the accelerator.
That's the indirect message of a recent study by two economists, who found that when government revenues dry up, police write more speeding tickets. After analyzing 14 years of data in North Carolina, the pair found that for every 1 percent drop in government revenue, the number of traffic tickets issued per capita increases by 30 percent the following year....
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