Although this challenge has been developing for some time, it isjust now becoming widely apparent that police departmentsnationally are no longer able to respond to or document routineauto accidents.
Shrinking operating budgets, compounded by the new and higherpriority demands of protecting communities from civil unrest aswell as domestic and foreign terrorism, are increasingly pushingaccident-scene attendance down to the bottom of police prioritylists.
Not all police public relations departments would go out oftheir way to announce these changes in service priorities, butmedia reports on the withdrawal of such services have appeared inthe past 18 months in Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma,Nevada, Texas and Virginia. Private discussions with chiefs ofpolice from New York to California reveal similar intentions.
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