![]() ![]() ![]() The biggest crime we have is domestic abuse and we don't need bullet-proof vests and automatic rifles to handle that." "It's absurd to have cruisers with TV's in the cars and dark windows. He mocks the "bells and whistles in that police candy store up in Pawtucket."Īnother resident, who asked that her name not be used for fear of antagonizing the police, agrees. "It is simply inappropriate for us to spend this kind of money on our podunk, back-of-the woods police force," says Gerald Humphrey, a former pastor derided as a "town nut" by critics on both sides. That leaves a highly endowed police department deciding what level and style of law enforcement Little Compton will have. "It's the feeling of the council that it's cheaper to float a bond for 5 %J percent than it is to use forfeiture funds that are getting 6 or 7 percent in interest." But since the chief refuses to put any more of his forfeiture funds into the project, the taxpayers now have to pay half the cost.Ĭabot, facing re-election this fall, supports the police. Many plans later, with legal and other fees nibbling away at the million-dollar appropriation, a new design costing more than $2 million is before the voters. The summer-only residents, who have to sit silently in the bleacher section at town meetings, gasped - an aesthetic offense to the postcard charm of the commons! The town barber was enraged, too - at the prospect of losing the community ball field. Washington approved that, but the eventual plan for a $1 million combined police/fire complex would have located it on the town commons. ![]() The way to get a new fire station, it seemed, was to tie it to a new police station paid for by the drug-seizure funds. The taxpayers have seen their yearly police budget continue to grow, if only slowly - and they are incurring future liabilities they couldn't have anticipated. Washington approved a trust fund to pay Coffey's salary so that he could be lent to the Rhode Island Fugitive Task Force, which has enabled him to bring back more money to Little Compton from seizures in Providence, Boston and New York.įorfeiture money cannot be used to pay the salaries for existing positions or replace existing equipment, so the tax advantages to the town are illusory. Priority is given to generating more seizures. ![]()
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