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Cottonwood Heights police force now on duty

I certainly wish them all the very best.

Way to run up the costs! More layers of beauracracy and you get to pay for it.

wonder how much revenue in tickets they made opening weekend??

I wonder if they will drop everything to chase down every false alarm now?

You decided not to look into this one at all? Just a fancy feature? Alright, I guess if that's the quality of journalism we should expect from you guys...

I wonder what planet some of you live on. Cottonwood Heights fires the Sheriff, decreasing the layers of "beauracracy", and gets lambasted for adding layers. If you were to visit the real world you might find that *every* city in Salt Lake County that has fired the Sheriff has seen costs per officer plummet and citizen support of law enforcement sky rocket. If you really wanted to know the truth you would be pushing the news folks to survey costs and satisfaction in Draper, but doing that would look bad for the current Sheriff so you'll never ask, choosing instead to make moronic comments to the paper.

Apparently it's rational to call your neighbors morons. Nice!

The cost per officer is deceiving because the cities count all their officers but they don't count the extra deputies in the pooled serives. If they added the unlimitied use of pooled services the Sheriif is far cheaper. That's right, unlimited use of SWAT, Person's crimes investigators, K9, etc. Instead, the cities have to take one of those officers off the street to do all those things. Furthermore, rather than providing all the services themself, CHPD will depend on other agencies to provide much of the services through their 'interlocal agreements.' These agreements go both ways and other cities expect somethingin return. So more of the 'cost per officer' is hidden in the fact that at some point they must pay back those cities by going and doing something for them- again taking cops off the street of Cottonwood.

And, the citizens in those cities are not more satisfied. When citizens are polled, the Sheriff's Office always has the highest customer satisfaction ratings.

So really it is you that is the moron making comments to the paper.

To: To: The Rational One:

You math/data is wrong. If you look into what Cottonwood Heights paid for "pooled services" and what they got, you'll find the same subsidization of dollars from CH to Kearns/Magna/Copperton/et al. So even if an officer was "taken off the street" for some time to address a "pooled service", the net result is a win for Cottonwood Heights.