ChuanFa_Tiger_Style t1_it439ue wrote on October 20, 2022 at 8:00 PM

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

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.

courageous_liquid t1_it43ns4 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 8:02 PM

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.

ChuanFa_Tiger_Style t1_it4e0xv wrote on October 20, 2022 at 9:09 PM

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.