Are bake sales next for funding police?
You’ve seen the old bumper sticker that reads: “It’ll be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to have a bake sale to buy a bomber.”
Unfortunately, the Bayside, Wisconsin police have gone to selling raffle tickets in order to buy a new surveillance camera system.
The village board thought the camera system was a good idea, but didn’t have the $34,000 to buy it. So Police Chief Bruce Resnik went with a raffle to raise the money.
“Volunteer fire departments do it all the time,” Resnick said of raffles. “I can’t honestly say I’ve heard of a police department doing a raffle.”
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