Sheriff’s officials are spending $300,000 on items they say would make deputies look more professional in their jobs and could help make them safer.
But the taxpayer dollars won’t go toward tools such as higher-quality ballistic vests, backup guns or body cameras, all of which are optional items that deputies have to pay for on their own.
Instead, Sheriff Jim McDonnell is spending the money on a minor cosmetic makeover of deputies’ uniforms: changing the color of their belt buckles and other metal pieces of gear from silver to gold.
The agency is facing a chronic staff shortage and a recurring budget deficit.
Take it out of the pensions you fucking pigs
Pistol $300
Radio $150
Stab Vest $800
Belt Buckles $300,000
Uniform $200someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my department is dying
criminal: eat lead, pig
sheriff: *pushes back his jacket to reveal a gold belt buckle
criminal: oh wait hold up i didnt know you were so *respectable*
L.A. County Sheriff’s Department switches from silver to gold belt buckles at a cost of $300,000
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