Those of you with your own in-house police departments have sworn officers (henceforth “officers”) and police department space for them to work out of.  Dividing the amount of police department square feet space by the number of officer’s results in the de-facto standard of square foot of space per sworn officer.  What is your standard?  Is it adequate and sufficient, or is the department continually requesting more space?  Irrespective of that, since many departments may hav

There is a favorite game being played today called “Catch the Fee that’s Really a Tax.” This game is played by many well-intentioned individuals who believe that fees are being adopted that are “fees” in name only. If we assume for the sake of argument that the “fee” which is alleged to be a tax meets the requirements of not exceeding the cost of the associated service (which is a criteria for fees in many jurisdictions), then we have a “fee” which could logically be consider