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Schwarzenegger should follow Perry's lead on drug task force system

Counterintuitively, given that the state is in the midst of its worst fiscal crisis in decades, the California Emergency Management Agency yesterday approved (pdf) expanded funding for multi-jurisdictional drug task forces using new federal stimulus money, but judging from Texas' experience that's a bad decision.Long-time readers know that Governor Rick Perry eliminated Texas' drug task forces after a series of high-profile scandals, including the one in Tulia and also in Hearne (the story of which this year was made into a major motion picture). For a while they were placed under the auspices of the Texas Department of Public Safety, but most of them refused to comply with DPS rules and shut their task forces down - the rest then lost their funding...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 20, 2009 (boomark / email).