Even the Narcs are out of Money in California [Budget]
California’s budget mess looks so bad that one can imagine the sick dying in the streets and the crazies raping their corpses. Amidst the state’s real problems, let us all shed a tear for California’s nightmarish Criminal Justice system, especially the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement and their budget woes. A current proposal in Sacramento would:
reduce the number of state Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement (BNE) agents to 100 and zero-out funding for 51 drug task forces funded by the agency. A decade ago, BNE fielded 400 agents. Cuts in recent years have reduced that number to 185 agents, and the latest budget proposals would slice that number nearly in half.
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“Hopefully the Legislature understands the importance of the drug task forces and doesn’t cut us,” he said. “But if they do, we’ll have to pick up the pieces.”
No word on how much money the State would save. But TDR says, “Do it!”
[StopTheDrugWar via Redding.com]
