El Picador notes a story in today's' Journal describing how some neighborhoods in Albuquerque pay for extra police protection. Apparently, you can hire cops on overtime to bust speeders and enforce the laws that they are too busy to take care of during normal business hours. Wow, I always thought we pay taxes for that sort of thing---but no. If you want "deluxe" you have got to pay extra.
But this is nothing new to the citizens of Los Ranchos. Here, we pay the county tax, but in order to get protection by the county PD (AKA BCSO) we've got to pay extra for three officers, their cars, a Sargent, and all of their benefits. And then these officers are used for duties outside of the village, being sent as far away as the east mountains. So not only are we paying more, but we are actually getting less while subsidizing police protection in the rest of the county! And what rationale does BCSO offer for this? Their response is that LR has a low crime rate, and they send the officers where they are needed. But if you ask them for data about crime, you get a bunch of excuses about computer glitches and the like. Because the whole thing is a big scam
Outrageous, but alas no one except El Picador seems to care about this stuff. Everyone here was so worked up over a losy mill for open space. The county is taking us for a whole lot more than that.
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