PEACE SIGNS FOR SALE

There are any number of towns and villages today that are hurting for revenue. INS wonders if any have considered offering a service by selling police badges to people interested in having their own unbounded authority to carry a gun anywhere; just like police. Who would stop them? I don't believe that law officers are like cosmetologists who must be certified by the state. Cosmology can't be practiced by just anyone; whole galaxies are at stake. They need a license from the State!

If a man or woman appeared before the Village Chief of Police and announced a willingness to give the town $500 if the town issued him a badge and credentials, what's a cop going to do?

It's easy enough to shield such towns and police from any bad consequences, should there be any, because that's what lawyers do. Besides, police blow the hell out of things and shoot thousands of people every year and you never hear of it putting a town or village out of business or a cop out of a job.

I know it happens. It seems every rich and powerful man or his son who is busted for high crimes and misdemeanors in LA, New York, Orange County, etc, is a special friend of the sheriff and turns out to be an official reserve deputy sheriff. I think it's interesting that the Mayor of New York City has a heavily armed bodyguard of 6 men and our poor ambassador to Libya had nobody.

How many other places in America sell the badge the way LA does? What's the going rate?