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Good idea. Can I double your taxes, to pay for it? |
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Could you repeat the question? |
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And education always seems to get shafted, leading to poor standards of language usage. Kids don't vote. |
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Two police forces? Baked, in New York, in 1857. |
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From Herbert Asbury's "The Gangs of New York": |
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"...during the summer both police forces patrolled the city, and paid more attention to their private feud than to protecting the lives and property of the citizens. Whenever a Metropolitan [the force formed by the Governor to replace the existing force] arrested a criminal, a Municipal [loyal to the astonishingly corrupt Mayor] came along and released him, and the thug went about his business while the policemen fought... Respectable citizens were held up and robbed in broad daylight on Broadway and other principal streets, while Municipal and Metropolitan policemen belaboured each other with clubs, trying to decide which had the right to interfere." |
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Most governments can't adequately manage and fund the business units they have now, without giving them two of everything. |
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hmm... thank you all for this discussion. It seems like a genuinely bad idea. So now I have to find an improvement that will fix the challenges. |
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BTW, if it would work, they would be doing twice the work for HALF the pay (since we woud be using the same budget without doubling it). |
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