Taking the Law into Your Own Hands...

Josephine County Commissioner Keith Heck said residents of the county that opposed the tax levy need to realize there is no fat to cut.

Heck said though he supports neighborhood watch groups, the rise of increasingly “aggressive” community watch groups make him worried the situation could escalate to violence. Watch groups have been under increasing scrutiny nationally ever since the George Zimmerman case in Florida.

Heck said the only real solution is for the county citizens to approve more funds.

"There is this little shimmer out there of some giant Santa that is going to come and drop all this money on us because we are well-meaning folks,” he said. “The sleigh is broken, the deer are dead, it’s not going to happen. We have to figure out how we are going to solve this problem.”
....
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/28/citizens-take-law-into-own-hands-after-cash-strapped-ore-county-guts-sheriff/?intcmp=obnetwork
....

Its quite simple. Rural Josephine County has very little land subject to taxation and is not going to over-tax its residents to support overly paid police or other bloated organizations. For a long time local residents were the only law that existed in Oregon Territory and the local residents are perfectly willing to return to the days of local law enforcement, citizen posses and direct and immediately effective action having learned that such a situation is preferable to excessive taxation by authorities consisting largely of government employees.

These scare tactics often work: Our TV news programs follow a policy of "If it bleeds, it leads" making everyone think crime rates are high instead of extremely low due largely to the availability of cheap abortions. Then the voters believing the lies of the police and the media vote higher and higher taxes that gets them nothing but bloated bureaucrats proposing endlessly more costly programs such as Red Light Cameras that raise revenue and increase accidents or pervert printouts that save no children but increase the public burden immensely. DARE programs pay cops 80K a year to go around to schools and stare at teenage girls breasts, then the police make speeches about needing more officers.

Or we get laws about Driving while Texting which INCREASE risk because violators have to go to extreme measures to hide their telephones from passing cops and passing tattle talers.

Well, Josephine County, Oregon has opted to have quality of life the most important factor and that means freedom from taxation to support bloated bureaucrats fighting imaginary problems. Their sheriff's office is now open M-F from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Prisoners will not be kept at the local jail, judges must use community centered punishment rather than give some local jail staff a reason to exist. Fires are handled by volunteers, SAR missions are volunteers. And if to keep a rural and tax-free lifestyle necktie parties become a necessity, those will be handled by volunteers also.

Jail for overdue library books.

Texas, in keeping with its punish everyone to the max philosophy jailed a man who kept a GED study book that was over due by three years. Of course putting someone in jail who has tried to better themselves does seem foolish.

Wealthy Mercer Island in Washington does not even have an anti-theft protection system but is the lowest in lost materials in the King County System.