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Penny-Pinching Towns Put Police Out to Pasture

By Karen SchwartzJul 13th 2010 – 12:01PM
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. (July 13) -- The sheriff will be walking the streets again in San Luis -- the oldest community in Colorado. But it's not a return to the Wild West; the town fired its entire police force to save money. Around the country other towns -- large and small -- are also eliminating their police departments....

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The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by the state to enforce the law, protect property, and limit civil disorder.

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