Terrell Bolton wants to use $1 million of confiscated crime money to give all 1,011 patrol officers and sergeants a Taser stun gun. He will most likely pitch his idea today at the County Commission public safety committee at 1 p.m.at the Manuel Maloof Administration Building, downtown Decatur. AJC STORY
Someone should ask why Bolton is asking for over 1 million dollars to purchased 1011 Tasers, when 8 months ago he only asked for 770 Tasers at the cost of $716,000. According to our calculations, today's proposal, the cost of each Taser is approximately $989.00 each. But in April 2008, the cost for each Taser would have been approximately $929.99 each, a difference of $60.00 dollars each.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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anyone know what the outcome was??
It seems to me Bolton is more concerned with spending money than actually arming the officers in the streets with tasers. Does he have a friend at the taser company or something?
If the primary goal is to get tasers into the hands of officers, Bolton could do it TOMORROW! All the tasers the Sgt's had are sitting in storage! Vernon made Graham put them up because Vernon wanted to look good in the eyes of the public prior to his soon to be failed Senate run.
We've got a lot of tasers sitting in storage. It would be nice to arm every officer with one, but what's wrong with rearming the Sgt's in the meantime. Maybe the giving them to the Sgt's will have a positive effect and strengthen the argument for arming all officers.
Why do we have tasers collecting dust? Most have probably never even been used!
Redeploy the tasers we already have, which will cost the tax payers nothing, show that they work, then slowly build up the taser arsenal!
It seems like such a waste of money to not use stuff we have that works! And it's a further waste to replace stuff that works and has never been used!
The plan is to have all sergeants and below issued a TASER. That would amount to all the employees issue a TASER from non 911 responding officers to Detectives who are one of the last to arrive on a scene.
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