It may be voluntary, but what happens is that local elected officials who sound like some of us here begin to put pressure on the police department to get into the program when, indeed, just about every law enforcement agency, local law enforcement in the Nation has gone public to say we don't want it. And in this case, we don't even want people to ask us to join it.
Discussing local law enforcement's opposition to a voluntary program.
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