RobBob Posted June 23, 2004 Posted June 23, 2004 Dammit, yet another telemarketer fundraising for law enforcement got past our receptionist. Last week it was the policemen's benevolent association, yesterday it was the sherriff's ass'n, and just now it was "the narcotics officers' association." This phone-turd used phrases like "we're just trying to keep the kids off drugs" to overcome my repeated NOs. Finally, when I asked him to put me on his Do Not Call list, he howled "but our officers are dying out there, sir!" to which I replied Yes, and they are getting paid a salary to do it. Law enforcement, fire-fighting, etc. should all be banned from fundraising. They are inappropriately preying on people's alternate sympathies or paranoia that maybe they might not get service if they don't "contribute." Quote
Off_White Posted June 23, 2004 Posted June 23, 2004 A lot of those law enforcement fundraising things are actually scams, and the respective agencies net a very tiny percentage of the take. It's boiler room telemarketing, and the folks involved have nothing to do with law enforcement. Quote
TurtleSoup Posted June 23, 2004 Posted June 23, 2004 exactly! I've seen published statistics that show the actual fireman and police organizations only get 5% to 15% of the money collected by the telemarketers. Quote
crazyjizzy Posted June 23, 2004 Posted June 23, 2004 I actually doubt that it was the policemans benevolant society. I have here a letter from the Wa. Firefighters Benevolant Society stating that they are not aware of a similar unit for the police. Most of these calls are for the unions of the civil servants. I would expect that the policemen do not donate to the Boilermakers, so why should we donate to their union? I will support benevolant societies, but not unions. Quote
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