Senator Steven Oroho (R-24) responded to a Star-Ledger report published yesterday that expressed the Corzine Administration’s decision to charge rural communities for State Police patrols. The article states:
Administration officials contend it isn’t fair for taxpayers in places with their own police departments to also have to pay for patrols of other municipalities.
Oroho questioned whether the Administration would agree to a slightly altered revision of that stated position which merely replaces references to “police” and “patrols” with “education” and “schools.”
Administration officials contend it isn’t fair for taxpayers in places that pay for their own schools to also have to pay for education in other municipalities.
“The hypocrisy of the Corzine Administration could not be any clearer,” said Oroho. “The Administration believes it is fair for all state taxpayers to support the cities with billions of dollars of education subsidies every year, but it’s somehow unfair to provide State Police patrols to small rural communities that cannot support local police departments.”
Oroho noted that the cost of State Police patrols of rural areas, at several million dollars, is minimal compared to the massive cost of state education aid that is misspent in the cities.
“Recent audits have shown that the Abbott districts waste and improperly spend more state funding annually than the entire cost of rural policing,” added Oroho. “For the Corzine Administration to claim that providing State Police patrols to rural communities is unfair, despite rural taxpayers being forced to pay for billions of dollars of fraud and abuse in urban schools, is utter hypocrisy that cannot be denied.”
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