Channel 5 has it WRONG!!! (Green Hills)
Reply to: HRWmtgloans@aol.com
Date: 2008-05-05, 7:27PM CDT
Instead of a story about the 5% cut to the Metro Courts they missed the bigger story....HOW COULD IT HAVE BEEN AVOIDED? Well that it is story that would have anybody, or at least anybody with any sense OUTRAGED! See it goes like this...
The sheriffs office says it cost about $60.00 a day to house it's guest (also known as inmates) yet they recive $100.00 a day for it. I don't know how it cost that much when all 3 meals cost them less than $2.00, but thats another story,so being in finance for the last 21 years I show a proffit here of $40.00 a day per person which comes to about $20,000.00 a day and ABOUT $8,000.00 a day PROFFIT!
They say "well the jails are over crowded" and I'm sure they are, but what are the majority in there for? This is the part that will have you at very least PISSED!
I done a study of this and found that almost HALF were in the for trival things. Things such as trespassing (one guy was sitting on a sidewalk of a business that was closed (if that officer was that worried about where the guy was sitting, perhaps he should have taken him to his house and let him sit instead of costing the taxpayers $100.00 a day), probation violation, one lady I talked to lost her job and had not gotten back to work so she was violated and has to serve 30 days (that bright probation officer just cost us $3000.00 in a state where $2000.00 a month is good money), oh and heres a good one, driving on a revoked license, a guy had his license revoked over unpaid tickets and was given 10 days (thats a $1000.00 it costs us). The total cost to get his license back is about $1500.00, he makes or made $7.00 an hour (of course now he is out of a job over this and will be filing for unemployment)so he barely is able to live, let alone give the state anything to get his license back. This is the 2nd time he has been arrested in one year for this and both times got 10 days (for a total of $2,000.00 to the sheriffs department) and both times lost his job. Now the states money is OUR money because they dont produce anything and the only way it has to make money to stay in business is to have us send them money, but a 3rd grader could figure out that it would be cheaper for the taxpayers to just give the guy back his license. We would have a net savings of $500.00, this guy would be able to get insurance, keep his job and avoid un-employment (which by the way costs us as well). Perhaps that is what the whole problem here is.... some people have so much education the first thing they lose is COMMON SENSE! The ability to do basic math is normally what goes first I guess?
Solution - Now if you feel bad for the courts then call them, e-mail them and tell them the first place they can find their 5% is to a) tell officers to stop arresting people for trival things, b) when they do just cut them lose. This will not only save money for the courts but will also save you and I a whopping (appox) $4,000.00 a DAY, $28,000.00 a WEEK, $121,240.00 a MONTH and are you ready???? $1,454,880.00 a YEAR!
Howard R. Whitaker, Finance Officer
Green Hills
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