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When Tuttle
Police Officers
Become Revenuers |
| by JD Nutt, IG Web-Editor |
| Report last updated on December 15th, 2010 - Tuttle, OK. |
| While talking to my neighbor across the
road, I learned we both had something in common. We had been pulled over
by a patrol officer of the Tuttle, Oklahoma Police Department, twice,
within the last month. |
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| Coincidence? I think not. It’s a sign
of the times. With income for the city slowing to a trickle, revenue is
badly needed. So why not call on the Police Chief Don Cluck to get a
boost. Hence, Tuttle Police Officers become revenuers by making more
contacts during their patrol duties. More citations are issued and more
revenue is collected. |
| I asked one officer who had delayed me
if he was aware of the term “pro-active police work”. He replied
“that’s what I’m doing”. |
| The reality is the City Council needs
money. Yesterday the vote for a city library failed. Consequently the ear
marked half cent tax increase will not go into effect. (Do people still go
to libraries ?) |
| It has come to a sad point in our
community when our police have to collect revenue for our city fathers. At
least the officers are not drawing their weapons on the citizens as they
meet their collection quota. Not yet anyway. |
| Yesterday, Doug Enevoldsen with
NewsOK.com wrote: Oklahoma is the only state in the nation whose
municipalities are required to operate primarily on sales tax, a highly
volatile revenue source whose base has steadily been eroded over time
through legislated tax exemptions and ever-rising, nontaxed Internet
sales. http://bit.ly/emRSNB |
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Tuttle, Oklahoma is home to Jason White, the 2003 Heisman
Trophy Winner, Tiger Safari, Oklahoma’s walk-thru exotic wildlife
educational zoological facility, Braum’s Dairy and the annual Ice Cream
Festival and JD Nutt, a free lance journalist that provides insight for his
many readers at the IndependentGazette.Com .
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| Report Source(s): |
| http://newsok.com/now-is-time-to-look-at-how-we-fund-municipalities-in-oklahoma/article/3523638#ixzz18AG471YT |
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