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Abdul Uncovers the Inreasing Costs for $upporting Marion County $heriff

Submitted by lpin on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 23:57 |

Reposted from the Indiana Barrister blog written by central Indiana's leading political reporter and radio/television pundit, Abdul Hakim-Shabazz.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- Marion County Sheriff Frank Anderson may be crying poverty, but from an intial look at his budget someone at the Sheriff’s department likes to spend money like a drunken sailor in a Vietnamese brothel.

As I told you earlier Anderson, requested a $26 million increase over last year’s budget. MCSD spent $84 million in 2007 and was on track to spend $91 million in 2008 and requested more than $111 million in 2009. That amount was cut back to about $85 million. After going through the budget on-line, here’s what I discovered.

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