Two law enforcement teams for busting drug dealers in the stateline area are being dissolved because Federal money has evaporated. Tough on street crime, the units known as Rock County Narcotics Enforcement Team or RCNET and the Stateline Area Narcotics Team or SLANT have brought good results and now local police authorities are left scrambling to patch together a gang crimes and drug trafficking unit based on “cooperation”. In other words, no money.
I’m sorry, but I don’t get how we can expect the same level of enforcement without the federal dollars. Why has Rep. Paul Ryan allowed this grant to dry up? More importantly, the Janesville Gazette editorial made the loss of revenue from the Fed sound like it offers positive consequences for our local crime fighting needs, when in all reality its just another blow to our domestic security. The Gazette never asks the important questions of why or how.
I would also like to know how much money was cut off, and how the local police are going to replace the funding? Will they use local money? Is this just another result of the Bush/Ryan Fed spending cuts? ….. at a time when the Fed is flush in Bush taxcut dollars? Someone needs to tell Paul Ryan that spending Federal revenues on advanced police work has nothing to do with pork! What happened to the Fed dollars?
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