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courageous_liquid t1_it2fl94 wrote

Reply to comment by fuckit5555553 in What's with the ATV crowd in PA and what should I do about it? by Griff82

> Btw you pay taxes so you pay for the state police.

Nah, that PSP budget is paid for from the motor vehicle fund, which is supposed to be for critical infrastructure maintenance. Municipalities that don't pay for local cops and rely on PSP instead are robbing the state of crucial budget for reliability and safety on our roadways.

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wagsman t1_it2ixq0 wrote

Part of it is paid for by the fund. The PSP absolutely has a budget built into the state budget separate from the MVF.

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FaithlessnessCute204 t1_it3i6yd wrote

It’s anywhere between 1/2 to 1/3 depending on how much the give out of the general fund(which is where the majority of the rest comes from)

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ChuanFa_Tiger_Style t1_it439ue wrote

I get where you're coming from, but it's more than money. I'd rather have state cops patrolling the rural areas than extremely underfunded local agencies that are deputizing anyone who can carry a gun.

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courageous_liquid t1_it43ns4 wrote

That's fine, then start taxing those areas that want to do that. Wolf was trying to do that but the state wasn't having it.

It's annoying because the rest of the state is footing the bill even more than we already do from a pool of money that's desperately needed. When Leslie was still the PennDOT Sec, she told me PennDOT would need TRIPLE the funding they currently have just to tread water on bridge maintenance (and like 50% of our bridges are structurally deficient as it is).

And now they have even less because some small towns want police and don't want to pay for it.

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ChuanFa_Tiger_Style t1_it4e0xv wrote

Yeah, I mean there are models out there that other states use to manage the law in large rural areas. This isn't rocket science.

But like I'm saying, the problem with making it the responsibility of, say, county sheriffs is that county sheriffs offices end up becoming corrupt as fuck and people get hurt. Imagine predatory sheriffs offices detaining tourists from the city, rinse, repeat.

There's got to be a better way.

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