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Via Bitch, Ph.D.:

When Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, the town charged rape victims for the cost of collecting evidence.

While the Alaska State Troopers and most municipal police agencies have covered the cost of exams, which cost between $300 to $1,200 apiece, the Wasilla police department does charge the victims of sexual assault for the tests.

Wasilla Police Chief Charlie Fannon does not agree with the new legislation, saying the law will require the city and communities to come up with more funds to cover the costs of the forensic exams.

In the past we've charged the cost of exams to the victims insurance company when possible. I just don't want to see any more burden put on the taxpayer, Fannon said.

Fannon is the guy who was hand-picked by Palin to be police chief after she fired the incumbent because, as a member of her staff explained to ABC News, "we needed people with new energy and a new vision."

People, apparently, who don't want the poor overburdened taxpayer to have to pay for the police to do their damn jobs. At least, not when it came to dealing with some slut who went and got herself raped - because apparently burglary victims got their evidence collected for free.

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