Cop Cuts

" Just how bad it is this recession so bad it's got some -- cutting back on law enforcement. -- around the country mounting bills and extreme budget gaps have reduced or eliminated many basic services but now. Small towns like -- Minnesota. Forced to downsize their police department sometimes merging that with nearby law enforcement agencies or simply shut in the -- all together."

" Flowers and a town of 600 like Peter -- it does you get to know your customers were small enough community where everybody knows everybody else plus people passed through cook on their way up to northern Minnesota mostly -- tourists some are shoppers once. There was a burglar. They came in just for the money they -- her cash register they've broken our back door a series of burglaries in recent years have put folks and cook Minnesota a bit on edge but not as much as the recent decision to get rid of its two person police department because cook. Could not afford it we have to have squad -- after computer here general -- have updated stuff so -- can be. An expensive endeavor for a very small stone like -- 600 people on average in America it cost 93000. Dollars to keep every cop on the street so one cook got rivets to reinforce the job shifted to the county sheer."

" police departments go away. More and more are calls for service -- upon us more and more responsibility. Increased dangers."

" I don't want -- but sure -- gets no extra money or manpower for the extra work and in the last two years there have been dozens of local police departments around the country either eliminated or considered for elimination. Almost all of them because towns can no longer afford their own force. Back in cook Minnesota locals are hoping to bring their police department back by electing new City Council members to reverse the decision. If that doesn't work you'd be surprised how many people are armed now Steve Brown Fox News."