Although this challenge has been developing for some time, it is just now becoming widely apparent that police departments nationally are no longer able to respond to or document routine auto accidents.
Shrinking operating budgets, compounded by the new and higher priority demands of protecting communities from civil unrest as well as domestic and foreign terrorism, are increasingly pushing accident-scene attendance down to the bottom of police priority lists.
Not all police public relations departments would go out of their way to announce these changes in service priorities, but media reports on the withdrawal of such services have appeared in the past 18 months in Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Nevada, Texas and Virginia. Private discussions with chiefs of police from New York to California reveal similar intentions.
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