Memphis PD drops big dimes seeking cop-criticizing blogger

Andie Schwartz sends along this story concerning your tax dollars at work:

Unsuccessful efforts to uncover the identity of Internet bloggers critical of the Memphis Police Department and its top officers will cost the city $88,000.

The city filed suit in state court in an attempt to identify the people behind a Web site called MPD Enforcer 2.0, but the lawsuit was eventually dropped.

Now Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit, a Tennessee blogger himself, has picked up the story, and adds, "Hey, it's not as if budgets are tight or anything," linking to this item reporting:

As Gov. Phil Bredesen's administration begins two weeks of budget hearings next week, the governor says he will ask department heads to cut their budgets by 10 percent or more in the face of tumbling revenues and a financial downturn of indefinite length.