Making these boxes became quite a cottage industry in the Bavarian regions, often with the boxes being constructed by one family and then sent to a schachtelmaler, or box-painter, for decoration. 1. This top of this stunning box is decorated with the figures of a gentleman and two young women.
Municipal Budgets Per Capita. Excluding police and firefighter pensions, towns and cities in Lake County spent, on average, $359 per resident in 2003. (Data for Lake Station were not available at the time the analysis was conducted.) Two cities exceeded this average by wide margins (see Figure 1).
Law enforcement agencies in America's biggest cities spend an average of about $2,000 for each arrest of a prostitute, which amounts to more than $120 million a year in enforcement costs nationwide, according to a new study that describes itself as the country's first cost-benefit analysis of prostitution laws.hat means that the average big-city police department spent 213 man-hours a day enforcing prostitution laws. Meanwhile, the study points out, reports of violent crime were up 32% in 1985 from a decade before. However, arrests for violent crimes rose only 3.7%, and arrests for homicide and robbery dropped 15%.