What's in Erie's water?

Have aliens invaded Erie Township? If you read the papers or talk to people in Erie, it sounds like someone's having hallucinations. The police chief thinks the place has serious crime. The township board thinks the police department should generate enough revenue to pay its own way. Some citizens think the cops are overzealous. Other police agencies think the Erie Township police department is uncooperative and run like some sort of fiefdom. People are makng accusations that someone might have been playing fast and loose with recordkeeping and finances. So the township is calling in the (State) police. A strip club wants to move to the township. Some of the opponents are relatives of a strip club operator in Toledo.
Here's an idea: Let the strip club come in under an agreement that the township gets a portion of each patron's entry fee and the proceeds will fund the police department. In other words, the department probably will end up being truly self-funded.