LDII: Who Pays For Police Mourners?

LastDemoInIdaho: am I the only person wondering about the need and expense of police driving and flying there from all over the country?. I know their excuse is that this is “to honor” the fallen. Who is paying for all this travel? Are these police and deputies from Spokane and CDA on pay status? Are the departments having to pay overtime to others to cover for those who are at the wake? Are these mourners there on their own time and expense? If so, that is great. But the taxpayers from hundreds and thousands of miles distant from the coast should not be bearing these costs. Full post below .

Question: The individual officers from the Inland Northwest paid for their own way to Tacoma today. But I wouldn’t care if the various departments picked up the expense. Would you?

Just watched that huge display of police cars and officers in Tacoma, there for the memorial of the four slain officers.

I surely grieve for the wives and children of those four. What that ahole did, slaughtering them like livestock, was unbelievable and worthy of everyone’s disgust.

But, am I the only person wondering about the need and expense of police driving and flying there from all over the country?. I know their excuse is that this is “to honor” the fallen. Who is paying for all this travel? Are these police and deputies from Spokane and CDA on pay status? Are the departments having to pay overtime to others to cover for those who are at the wake?

Are these mourners there on their own time and expense? If so, that is great. But the taxpayers from hundreds and thousands of miles distant from the coast should not be bearing these costs.