FROM YOU'RE ARTICLE https://www.sbnation.com/college-fo...-football-tuscaloosa-police-overtime-spending 5. It's normal for a major football program to use off-campus police ... if it pays them. Alabama isn't alone when it comes to non-campus law enforcement working game days. The difference, at least in the Southeastern Conference, is that Alabama's the only one not paying for it. In January, the Baton Rouge Police Department invoiced LSU for $355,320 for policing seven home games at 102,321-seat Tiger Stadium in 2014, according to documents received by SB Nation. Georgia receives monthly invoices from the Athens-Clarke County Police Department for "on-campus and post-event traffic patrols" at 92,746-seat Sanford Stadium. UGA provided SB Nation a paid invoice that claims $45,048.19 for four home games' work in 2014. The College Station Police Department confirmed Texas A&M does reimburse for on-campus policing on game days and provided SB Nation with a payroll summary that claims $34,858.57 for the 2014 season. The Columbia Police Department provided SB Nation a reimbursed invoice that claims $10,080 for policing on campus during the 2014 Missouri football season. The Lexington Police Department provided SB Nation a reimbursed invoice that claims $32,304.98 for the same for time frame for Kentucky. South Carolina and Tennessee stated that they contract local and regional law enforcement as temporary university employees for game day policing. The Starkville (Miss.) Police Department confirmed the same structure with Mississippi State. At Auburn, the campus and city police forces are one. A spokesperson for the Nashville Metro Police Department stated that they do not work Vanderbilt football games. Local police departments for Florida (Gainesville), Ole Miss (Oxford) and Arkansas (Fayetteville) confirmed they receive reimbursement for officers working in stadium and on-campus. Ole Miss also confirmed that the university police department employs off-campus police at an hourly rate on game days. No other SEC program receiving outside police or emergency services on campus and/or in its stadium during football game days operated without a form of compensation, according to documents received in our reporting.
https://www.sbnation.com/college-fo...-football-tuscaloosa-police-overtime-spending 5. It's normal for a major football program to use off-campus police ... if it pays them.
Lets not change the subject.You said the police would be gleeful from the change,not the tax payers You really think cops are gleeful about losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in easy overtime pay?
The police department that must manage their budget will be gleeful from the change. Maybe I should have stated the point more directly so you would not deliberately mis- comprehend it.
They will no longer be working the games,so they are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in easy overtime pay
So you're saying the police department losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in easy overtime pay makes them gleeful? Just want to be clear that is your position
Police departments have BUDGETS. They have to live within their budgets. Paying lots of extra money in overtime to police university events typically causes budget problems.
City or University they were getting paid,hundreds of thousands of dollars of overtime pay.If the bean counters have to to spend extra time on the budget they too will get overtime for the extra work.
@gwb-trading Do you believe racism exists in the US? Do you believe we have a racism problem in the US? Would you be willing to list some ways we can improve race relations in the US? If so, please do. Are you an admitted racist (If you are, but haven't come out yet, of course, disregard this question)? Thanks.