Indy Police May Have to Pay for Gas

As if passing the cost of high fuel on to speeders wasn't unconventional enough, an Indianapolis Council member plans to propose requiring city and county police to pay for some of the gas that they use in their patrol vehicles. This would only make sense if only those officers with take-home vehicles were made to pay for the gas they use when they are off duty. Whether the rule would apply only to those officers is unclear. If take-home vehicles do, indeed, reduce crime in the neighborhoods in which those officers live, it follows that penalizing police for taking squad cars home would lead to an increase in crime. It's yet another consequence of years of the federal government's irresponsible fuel policies.