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Please explain to me how a private service that is funded by the defendants and/or their families or other indemnitors on a bond and costs Virginia tax payer absolutely nothing, can be compared to a tax payer supported state program instituted by DCJS and/or Pre-Trial services... but of course this isn't really about money... is it?
speezack (12/27/2009, 10:18 PM )
speezack (12/27/2009, 10:18 PM )
Thanks BILL!
Could not have said it any better.
Infact while reading both articles the above quote is what came to my mind.
We all know that "we" are a NON cost to the Taxpayers.
Ya'll need to be figuring the costs of the drug tests (25$ here) that are going to be required, and the costs of the folks administering same (will need an additional State Employee, as the current ones are already covered up), and monitoring the "alleged" criminals( will need an additional State Employee, as the current ones are already covered up), as well as the costs of the LE that will have to be put in place to return them to Jail.
But then we all, also, know that the only way an individual is returned to Jail via LE is most often quite by accident (literally), most often due to a stupid error made by a driver ending in a traffic stop OR a phone call regarding a Domestic
