The city of Tucson’s Independent Audit and Performance Commission will be reviewing a report on the potential costs of the Public Safety First Initiative, aka Prop 200, which voters will decide Nov. 3. The prop would require the city to hire more police officers and firefighters. City officials had earlier estimated the costs to be $51 million a year.
We hear the report will show even higher projected annual costs, in the neighborhood of $64 million a year, although the start-up costs over the next five years may come out lower than originally estimated.
Details to follow…
This article appears in Sep 24-30, 2009.
This whole initiative has a bad smell to it. I would like to find out exactly what business’s didn’t settle in Tucson because of crime. I suspect this is a lie. I noticed that all the Prop 200 supporters dutifully spoke this meme. I wonder if the press and the public will challenge them on this. A debate on crime in Tucson is a good thing but Prop 200 is a bad law from the get go. Only people making sense are the Greens. Local neighborhood watch, what the Police Dept is promoting anyway.