Gephardt: Alerts Costly for Local Police
The national terror alert system is threatening to create a new financial crisis if state and local law enforcement don’t begin to get federal reimbursement for their extra security costs, Democratic presidential candidate Dick Gephardt says. In an interview Monday with The Associated Press, the former House Democratic leader said a reimbursement system was even more essential than a proposal made over the weekend by other House colleagues to refine the Bush administration’s color-coded terror alert system. Full Story