Originally Posted by Sebring
Good point. We sometimes forget, or are never exposed to some of the self-serving police agendas, but they exist.
2) There is always a bigger budget to get if you can demonstrate a need, or create one.
3) The opposite to #2 is that if people think you have too much money because you haven't made any arrests, go make some arrests.
Don't know if you've seen
this on the RCMP:
"Contrast this. A decade ago our Mounties couldn't even protect 24 Sussex Dr. from a knife-wielding weirdo who got right to the prime minister's bedroom door -- with the intention of slitting his throat. Today the same Red Coats have foiled what appears to have been a major terrorist plot..................
The RCMP is a shop that's pretty much closed off to the media. The commissioner's relationships with prime ministers is a secret world"