Now who's going to harass brown people and shoot dogs?
Yeah, but who's gonna protect the citizens now from all the thugs and gang bangers? Now that they're jobless, the ex-police are gonna have way more time to harass brown people and shoot dogs without the constant need to fill out use-of-force reports.
The police are the thugs and gang bangers; now they'll have to do their harassment without the sanction of the law behind them
What law? Didn't you hear? All dem good apples up and left cuz the city wouldn't concede to their good-apple extortion.
Dw the meth head down the street has you covered
Especially now that he's unemployed
And nothing of value was lost.
I generally agree with the ACAB sentiment, but they were being paid $22 an hour which is a pittance. I wouldn't do the job for that salary either.
Pay depends on the area, if everyone else is making 13 then 22 is a kings salary. Should it work that way at this point? No but it does and being a cop statistically is less dangerous than my job.
Entire "city" has 1,176 people in it. That requires one cop.
I hear ya but it does take a bit more than that. People get sick or go on vacation plus they can get called out any time day or night. They had 3 Full timers and 2 part timers and it looks like they were doing Code Enforcement and Animal Control as well.
Finally, a city with good police.
So right now with our current — trying to hire at $22 an hour, you're never going to see another person again walk through those doors. That's it," Smith said. "Unless you guys do a dramatic change."
Smith stressed the urgency of the matter and said smaller police departments he has looked into pay at least $30 an hour.
I wonder if these cops support raising the minimum wage.
I'd be a cop for that. A good one that doesn't just look for reasons to murder.
Part of the reason we have issues with the police force and their policing is that they aren’t treated like professionals and held to professional standards. We need to pay them like the professionals too, even if that means we hire less.
If we demand higher police pay, we better be raising EMT, social work, and teacher salaries too.
And yes, I know this is whataboutism, but it feels wrong to fund police while some of the support system workers that prevent crime in the first place would be thrilled to be making the hourly rate these cops were.
The posted article complains they were offering $22/hr when similar towns are offering $30/hr. Here’s another article (from 3 years ago) that ranks average police salary in Minnesota as pretty high, just behind Massachusetts, which has a much higher cost of living. seems reasonable to complain is pay much lower than state average or typical of their peers
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2020/04/23/police-officer-salary-state/?sh=72e0096b2010
Police make hundreds of thousands of dollars with overtime in many places even low level officers.
FUCK EMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
You're free. Do something other than police. You kinda have to, now.
So having resigned (quit) they are not eligible for unemployment, I assume.
I would not assume anything when it comes to unemployment. I’ve seen it awarded in all sorts of circumstances, including during a resignation.
Contract out with the county. A city of 1000 does not need a full time officer let alone two full time ones and five part time officers.
2 officers per 1000 people isn't crazy.
True but again, they can easily contract out with the county. It is a fairly sparsely populated county and according to policescorecard.org, they have 2.3 officers per 1000 people which is better than 73% of departments.
The town I grew up in has about 2500 people and has not had a police department since the 90s. The last Republican candidate for governor here in Washington was police chief of a town of 1000 people and the town decided it made no sense to even have a department so they ended it while he ran which he did not expect. Both towns are still doing perfectly fine.
2 officers can't work 24/7. Three shifts of 4x10 (for overlap) is six people per cop on the street.
Those pigs just needed to pull harder on those boot straps
Good.
Now the rest of police
from all departments
need to just do the same
and we'll be good.
Time to call a crackhead
Beats a racist with a power complex anyday. Although there is a significantly higher overlap than you'd think.
Nice, now do all other police departments in the nation.
Also, the absolute chads over in Powderhorn don't call the cops anyway, so they will be unaffected.
In other news spirits are soaring in Goodhue, Minnesota.
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