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Fullduplexxx

(7,857 posts)
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 09:19 AM Feb 2019

Lock Your Doors': Sheriff Suspends Law Enforcement Over Lack Of Funding

Lock Your Doors’: Sheriff Suspends Law Enforcement Over Lack Of Funding

Lock Your Doors’: Sheriff Suspends Law Enforcement Over Lack Of FundingINEZ, Ky. (CBS Local) — “Lock your doors, load your guns and get a biting, barking dog.” That stunning advice came from a county sheriff in Kentucky after he suspended all law enforcement activities, declaring “WE ARE BROKE.”

Martin County Sheriff John Kirk posted a lengthy message Feb. 3 on Facebook explaining the county’s dire financial situation, noting that without divine intervention, “law enforcement as we have known for the last four years will not exist.”

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2019/02/12/lock-your-doors-sheriff-suspends-law-enforcement-over-lack-of-funding/?utm_campaign=true_anthem&utm_content=5c6400ed04d301291045667c&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=social&fbclid=IwAR0HjChoyfJO1qsI1o7S2dXULsa85T69E2IXj5mXeUhVfE9dgwaJ1IEmBP0


Magabilly freeeeeedum! Yeeeeeehawwwww! Let the purge begin

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Lock Your Doors': Sheriff Suspends Law Enforcement Over Lack Of Funding (Original Post) Fullduplexxx Feb 2019 OP
"Suspends Law Enforcement Over Lack Of Funding " mitch96 Feb 2019 #1
Magabilly BarbaRosa Feb 2019 #2
Privatization will be offered 2naSalit Feb 2019 #3
Too dependent on coal! atreides1 Feb 2019 #4
Just a hunch, but I'm betting Inez (Pop 670, for crying out loud) isn't going to see a huge jump A HERETIC I AM Feb 2019 #5

mitch96

(13,892 posts)
1. "Suspends Law Enforcement Over Lack Of Funding "
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 09:36 AM
Feb 2019

THIS is what stokes the gun nuts and the gun lobby.. The "gub'ment can't protect you so you have to buy high power semi automatic weapons to protect your self...... uffda
Feeding the beast..
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2naSalit

(86,536 posts)
3. Privatization will be offered
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 09:43 AM
Feb 2019

as the remedy rather than not giving tax money to the coal mine owners so the communities can function.


atreides1

(16,072 posts)
4. Too dependent on coal!
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 09:44 AM
Feb 2019

"A large part of the problem is a sharp decline in coal severance taxes in Eastern Kentucky, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported. Local Government Economic Assistance Fund money to coal-producing counties dropped from $34 million in Fiscal Year 2012 to $6.7 million in Fiscal Year 2018."

Coal addiction is as bad as drug addiction...

A HERETIC I AM

(24,365 posts)
5. Just a hunch, but I'm betting Inez (Pop 670, for crying out loud) isn't going to see a huge jump
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 10:58 AM
Feb 2019

in criminal activity.

We aren't exactly talking the cultural hub of Eastern Kentucky, here;

https://goo.gl/maps/2Z129bWprxF2

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