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.
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.
And nothing of value was lost.
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.
