$158,000 per arrest

My comment is about the article called $ 158,000 Per Arrest. In 2006 Governor Perry put in action his idea about the Texas border control by the use of cameras around the border between United States and Mexico; this idea was propose when elections were around the corner to get a new Governor. The idea of having cameras around the border to capture illegals, counterfeit money and drugs: it was not a bad idea if we think that the border patrol police will have an idea how many people are there and to avoid casualties in the police side.
The idea of having cameras will help police to find the people who are left behind by the “coyotes” to die in the desert, they will save lives. But like any idea or theory we will always find flaws; in this case allowing people to have access to the cameras and see the same thing police sees. How the police knows that the people who are watching are not people who is part of the Cartels. This is a big help for those who move drugs and people across the border because they know and they see everything that happens in the border.
The governor Perry propose this idea with the goal of “expected to generate 1,200 arrests, $25,000 in cash forfeitures, 50,000 incident reports and 4,500 immigration referrals” by so far we had 26 arrests at a value of 158,000 dollars per arrest. This project started with 2 million dollars and now the Governor had expended 4 millions and another 2 millions in 2009. The used of this money is to implement more cameras to protect the border, but how about spending less money in cameras and more in to hired man power to protect the border.
The idea in theory is good, put the actual action of the plan could be provide a different outcome of the expected; in this case the use of money into a program that has not provide its goal but just a small percentage. The money expended buying more cameras could have been used towards education or some other programs our state is in needs.