Craig Sloss on Nostr: In the #WaterlooRegion budget, the police are requesting a $24M tax increase based on ...
In the #WaterlooRegion budget, the police are requesting a $24M tax increase based on claims that they do not have the capacity to meet their workload demands. Publicly-available occurrence data shows that the biggest drivers of police workload can be prevented by greater investments in the non-police portions of the budget. (An “occurrence” is a call for service, and numbers represent the total time spent responding to the call.) (1/6)
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