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A dwindling cash pot, demanding public safety unions and violent
crime were threatening Lake Worth when it turned to the sheriff’s office
for help.
Running the city departments
was getting too expensive: Pensions and benefits had become a problem,
and the commission was facing pressure from residents and political
activists to fix it.
In
its haste to address the city’s crime problem, the commission voted to
enter a contract with the sheriff’s office, despite warnings the deal
was too expensive and the city should bargain for a better contract. The
measure passed on a 3-2 vote in 2008.
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We have a lot of crime and most of it is not talked about. We pay way too much. I agree with this article.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if this is a plot by PBSO, would need to consult other cities they have taken over, but it seems to me that they came in, did a great job for the first couple of years, won over many who were against them (including me). Once they were ensconced in our City they disappeared. I hardly ever see patrols, they do not respond in a timely fashion to calls to the non er number. They are MIA.
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