The Goodhue Police Department resigned due to issues with the city’s pay, Mayor Ellen Anderson Buck said at a city council meeting Monday.
That will happen when you don’t pay people. They aren’t a charity. (And even many charities pay their employees.)
And yet things like volunteer fire departments exist all across the country. These are just entitled cops who feel the world owes them something because they chose this job over another one. Obviously they don’t give a shit about the community they police or they wouldn’t have all quit before talks about pay raises could even occur. I suspect this is a ploy in conjunction with the city council to ‘reform’ the department operations and give huge pay bumps to all the ‘new hires.’
You are not entitled to their labor. They may choose to work for free, as many volunteers do, but they are by no means required to work for a pay they don’t agree to.
Are you implying that police forces should be volunteer units? Holy shit this is the worst case of pure, untreated brain rot I’ve ever encountered. Police need more professionalism and accountability, not less
It could be like the wild west. There’s one real cop and whenever he needs some help doing cop stuff he just stops by the local bar and asks for help.
No I’m stating that people will do civil service without any pay. Police do need more professionalism and accountability not more pay.
Obviously they don’t give a shit about the community they police or they wouldn’t have all quit before talks about pay raises could even occur.
They resigned and it’s not effective until August 24th, giving the City Council time to either work out pay raises or contract with the County for policing responsibility.
I suspect this is a ploy
I suspect that it’s a clear signal from Labor to Management that they’re tired of working for $22 an hour when similar job opportunities are paying $30.
FUCK EMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
You’re free. Do something other than police. You kinda have to, now.
I’m all for police reform, but you “fuck the police”/ACAB types are just anarchist idiots with serious inferiority complexes. Nothing in this article said anything about the police in question being corrupt of abusive of their power. They were just underpaid.
Police, in America. You clearly haven’t had any real interactions with them.
From the U.S.
A lot of interactions with police, very positive overall. Biggest issue I ever have had was having to wait over a holiday weekend to get a 1st hearing before being released.
Using the ACAB terminology is a gaurenteed way to ensure racism and bad treatment are fixed at a way slower pace.
Edit: my thought process… Anyone who wants to help change or becomes a cop trying to better the system you are already classifying as a bad person. So now they are trying an up hill battle against people that don’t like them bringing reform, fighting for people that don’t like them and call them names when they’re never met them. Eventually you imagine they give up on the reform because it’s easier and the same pay, and at least the people around them start to like them.
Adequately paid when you account for all their OT and other forms of compensation. plus the perks of being unfirable and immune to 99.9999999999% of prosecution. Since police corruption is systemic, and these cops are a part of that system, these cops are by definition corrupt.
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
Thanks to our strong 2A rights those citizens can easily protect themselves.
Awwww pigs sad they can’t kill people without looking like heros. All pigs should be bacon.
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.
It’s not just the raw danger it’s also the shit you have to deal with. I can’t imagine the stress of it. I wouldn’t do it.
Not to mention with this acab bullshit it’s even less than thankless.
I have a client who was responsible for recruitment for the local police and she said it was difficult to find people, which leads to worse conditions, more overtime, and more stress for everyone in the department.
Not to mention with this acab bullshit it’s even less than thankless.
Oh right we should be thanking cops for giving us traffic tickets when we just watched them blow through the same stop sign. We should be thanking them for murdering minorities in over policed neighborhoods. We should be thanking them for… checks notes one more time getting afraid of the dog in the yard they’re not supposed to be in and shooting it to death. /s
COPS DESERVE NO RESPECT. THEY ARE NOT HEROES.
You are so fucking cop pilled lmao
I live in one of the poorest states in the country, and even there, 22 is barely above average. So that a fuckin’ lie. This state has TWO of the most dangerous cities in America. Not even the desperate would police this shit for that money.
