"Mass Police" looking for handouts

[dwarven1]

OK, so for the last few years, I've been getting calls from the "Mass Police" looking for donations. Why? Why, to "help keep guns out of the schools", of course!

Now, when the Marlboro Police Officer's union calls, I donate. When the MFD calls, I donate. These guys? I don't know why I didn't do it before, but tonight as soon as he said those magic words, I replied "No thank you, and please put this number on your do-not-call list."

Just had enough of that crap.

 

[Rob Boudrie]

Police donations

Ask the questions they don't like to hear:

"Are you a police officer?"

"Are you a volunteer or a professional fundraiser?"

"What percentage of my donation goes to the fundraising company?"

"How may I obtain an audited financial statement to review before I make my decision?"

"How about if I send my donation directly to the Chief/Colonel/etc. to bypass the middleman, and make sure 100% of my donation goes to buying new lightbulbs for the blind of whatever it is you do?"

 

[dwarven1]

I like the way that they say that "the marlboro police are with us". What the heck does that mean?

Sorry, but they lost me at "help keep the guns out of the schools". What's wrong with a rifle team?

 

[Lynne]

How about keeping A-holes off the streets? [roll] I don't donate anymore, unless it really IS a LEO I'm talking to, and only IF the money will be used towards something non-gun related, like a fund for widows of officers that died in the line of duty or something.

 

[Scrivener]

And just HOW do they "keep the guns out of schools?" :?

 

[Lynne]

And just HOW do they "keep the guns out of schools?" :?

That's the $64,000 question, isn't it?

 

[Len-2A Training]

And just HOW do they "keep the guns out of schools?" :?

Why they file new gun ban bills and push them into law.

Silly grasshopper!

[evil]

 

[Len-2A Training]

You don't want to know what goes on in those boiler rooms!

I worked for the fundraisers for Brockton PD back in 1965. I made some very good money for the time, as I delivered the tickets and picked up the extorted money from the victims (businesses).

The high pressure "sales" tactics were nothing less than extortion. They even threatened merchants that if they didn't "donate" what was expected, local police would be slow (or fail) to respond if they needed a police response. Reality was that the Braintree PD didn't give a damn if the Blue Hills Cemetery donated "enough" to the Brockton Police Relief Assn (true story . . . I delivered the tickets to the owner of the cemetery and he told me how he was treated).

Also the actual PD only saw somewhere between 10 and 20% of the money collected. The rest went as commissions ("sales" people and delivery people {me} were both paid by commission) and the fundraiser management's cut of the action. Back when I was in the Jaycees, we had a circus come into town and we watched the sales folks like a hawk not to mis represent us. We got ~10% of the gross sales proceeds.

MUCH better to donate directly to the PD/FD/etc.

 

[JonJ]

OK, so for the last few years, I've been getting calls from the "Mass Police" looking for donations.

The question is, who is "Mass Police"? In the last few years, there have been companies doing fundraisers from out of state. No one knows who they are and where the $$$ goes and most of the time, they are not affiliated with your local PD.
If you want to donate, do it direct to the assoc.

 

[Adam_MA]

I donate every year to my local police department. But in my town, you are actually talking to one of the LEO's on the phone, and they come by in uniform and in a cruiser to pick up your donation.

The first year I donated, the LEO came up my steps and took the envelope off the door and left. The next year, the LEO took the envelope off the door, then knocked so he could personally thank me for the donation.

Adam

 

[C-pher]

The only donation I give to the town is when the New England Pats play the North Attleboro Police in Softball.

Not only is it a $10 donation to the local Police. I get to watch some ball, and meet some of the Pats as well. And they have a lot of fun...and the kids have a great time as well.

 

[dwarven1]

The question is, who is "Mass Police"?

Something I'd like to know myself. Anyway, they just hit the WRONG button with that crack.