M Jackson and California?

[grizzaholic]

So, with Cali in deep debt and LA holding the funeral. Who is paying the extra cops and security for his funeral? The state? Who is providing the motor-cade for his funeral prosession? The state? Where is this extra money coming from?

[dbackjon]

LA has a budget for stuff like this. Plus I would imagine all the out of towners are generating more than enough tax revenue to coVer it

[clenz]

Well over 4million dollars are left up to the tax payers for this celebration of the life of a pedophile.

[grizzaholic]

Someone else was thinking along the same lines as me.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_michael_j ... orial_cost

More than 17,000 fans attended the pop star's public memorial service on Tuesday. The event is estimated to cost up to $4 million in overtime for hundreds of police officers and other services

[travelinman67]

Yet, all over CA, cities are starting to bill residents for emergency service response when, "...any person whose intentionally wrongful conduct proximately causes any incident resulting in an appropriate emergency response, is liable for the expense of an emergency response by a public agency to the incident.".

So...

...if it's determined that the pedophile committed suicide by prescription medicine (i.e., "...intentionally wrongful conduct..."), can the City and County of Los Angeles bill the Jackson estate for it's "response"?

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

Well let's flip this thing. Should they just not have the cops there to provide the security? Then what would people say about the lack of foresight from the police for not having adequate security? Who pays for the security during Championship parades? Big NFL games, or NCAA Final Fours, or NBA games.

[travelinman67]

Well let's flip this thing. Should they just not have the cops there to provide the security? Then what would people say about the lack of foresight from the police for not having adequate security? Who pays for the security during Championship parades? Big NFL games, or NCAA Final Fours, or NBA games.

Those are community functions not the funeral of a private citizen.

Funeral security for heads of state/prominent political figures provide govt. paid personnel. And, unless provided for in an MOU, security (and procession participants) for military and law enforcement funerals is supplied by non-paid volunteers.

Civilian requests for L.E. are contract basis, paid for by the requesting party, and generally local agencies use Reserve, On-Call or Non-Sworn personnel.

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

Well let's flip this thing. Should they just not have the cops there to provide the security? Then what would people say about the lack of foresight from the police for not having adequate security? Who pays for the security during Championship parades? Big NFL games, or NCAA Final Fours, or NBA games.

Those are community functions not the funeral of a private citizen.

Funeral security for heads of state/prominent political figures provide govt. paid personnel. And, unless provided for in an MOU, security (and procession participants) for military and law enforcement funerals is supplied by non-paid volunteers.

Civilian requests for L.E. are contract basis, paid for by the requesting party, and generally local agencies use Reserve, On-Call or Non-Sworn personnel.

I know those are community events but I'm wondering if the whole community should cover the expenses for a USC Championship when such a small fraction of the community would actually attend and support the event. I'm not saying it's right or it's wrong but if there's bitching about it then the can of worms probably be opened up to all events. I mean they must have had to get a permit for this didn't they? Shouldn't this have been addressed by the City/County at the permit level? That's where I would think it would be handled anyway and I didn't read the article that Grizza posted after his first one but are we sure this wasn't addressed by the City/County?

[danefan]

what about the economic impact on the local businesses (hotels, restaurants, etc....). I'm sure somebody made some money from selling t-shirts in the parking lot.