# Reserve Peace Officers Association

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reserve-peace-officers-association/6202>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 15, 2000, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reserve-peace-officers-association/6202 "2000-01-15T21:47:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reserve-peace-officers-association/6202/1 "2000-01-15T21:47:00Z")

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Lately I’ve been getting a lot of calls from the “Reserve Peace (or Police) Officers Association” asking me for donations. The thing is, based upon the accents of the people calling me, I suspected they aren’t local, and when I called my local police department, they said they knew nothing about it and were definitely _not_ doing any fund raising – nor were their Reserves. So does anyone that the Straight Dope on this outfit? Are they legit or just another group of scammers? Has anyone else been hit up for money by this group?

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Jodi

_Fiat Justitia_

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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reserve-peace-officers-association/6202/2 "2000-01-15T22:15:00Z")

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I don’t know it this the outfit that’s called you, but they fit the description:

[Reserve Peace Officers Association](http://rpoa.com/)

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**Author:** ![NanoByte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@NanoByte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NanoByte)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reserve-peace-officers-association/6202/3 "2000-01-16T03:45:00Z")

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You have to put the ‘www’ in [that URL](http://www.rpoa.com/) to make it work.

@#(_#^_&#@!!! Nobody here ever seems to want to check their links anymore.

Ray

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**Author:** ![NanoByte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@NanoByte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NanoByte)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reserve-peace-officers-association/6202/4 "2000-01-16T03:47:00Z")

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Sorry about that first post, but at least I checked it.

You have to put the ‘www’ in [that URL](http://www.rpoa.com/) to make it work.

@#(_#^_&#@!!! Nobody here ever seems to want to check their links anymore.

Ray