Muscatine

at he Muscatine Police Dept. resigned to take a position in another City. That leave's us with a trained dog but no trained K-9 Officer. So our City Council voted for and passed that the dog be rated surplus and is allowing the dog to become the Officer's family pet and leave with them. I'm all for people having pets but give me a break,alot of taxpayers money was spent on an animal that they(Police Dept.)just had to have. Just when does the flushing of tax dollars end?

Actually they are sacing some

money by retiring the pooch at this time. The dog will need to be retrained for another handler at a cost of over $6000.00.
The useful life of the dog is before retirement if the current officer stayed here is less than 2 years. These dogs dont last nearly as long as a person does. Somewhere around 6 to 8 years depending on the dogs health. The savings comes from not retraining the dog. K-9 have proved to be very useful in saving money from an officer injury standpoint and from a getting drugs off the street. They are not some play toy that a modern dept should be without access to.
The bigger question is how come we have the turnover rate among police officers that we do? What is going on with things there that causes us to loose so many trained officers? Seems to me something may be rotten in denmark as the old saying goes. Need address that problem before the dept can move fwd and be as effective as it can be.

Herman

k-9 reply

it might end when corderoni and a.j. johnson are gone but people keep voting a.j. johnson to be the city administrator so there u have it. the citizens don't seem to mind filling the toilet.

same reply as for k-9

once again it goes to the top. a.j. johnson runs the city and allows corderoni to do what he does. real question is now....what will the voters do?