Hate “Big Government” and “High Taxes?” You’ll Love This
March 4, 2010 at 12:00 PM Leave a comment
If you hate “big government” and “high taxes,” Colorado Springs is the place for you:
Attrition has thinned the blue line. Police helicopters that kept watch over the city are being sold. Street lights have been turned off, leaving neighborhoods dark.
No worry, Colorado Springs cabbies are on patrol.
In a new program called, not surprisingly, Cabs on Patrol, 150 Yellow Cab Co. drivers will be teaming up with police, reporting crimes and suspicious activity they see while driving around the city. Yellow Cab dispatchers will have direct access to police to pass on information from drivers spot and to alert drivers about people or vehicles officers are searching for.
The program, which will be officially announced March 23, comes at a time when the Police Department is dealing with budget cuts that have left positions vacant and curtailed its ability to catch criminals.
I predict that it won’t take long before the cabbies ask to be paid for their services. Then what?
More on life in the hell hole that is Colorado Springs here and here.
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