The Goodhue City Council held a meeting on Monday to discuss options for police coverage following the entire department's resignation.

The Goodhue Police Department resigned due to issues with the city’s pay, Mayor Ellen Anderson Buck said at a city council meeting Monday.

    • thefartographer@lemm.ee
      3111·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • mashbooq@infosec.pub
        317·
        1 year ago

        The police are the thugs and gang bangers; now they’ll have to do their harassment without the sanction of the law behind them

        • thefartographer@lemm.ee
          93·
          1 year ago

          What law? Didn’t you hear? All dem good apples up and left cuz the city wouldn’t concede to their good-apple extortion.

          • RaoulDook@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            No idea what you’re talking about. Dogs can’t buy firearms as they usually don’t reach the required minimum age of 18.

            • _wintermute@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 year ago

              That’s why we need to be giving guns to dogs, so they can also protect themselves from the ex-cops. 2a folk trying to arm everything all the time (teachers, good guys, etc) like it’s going to cure death

              • RaoulDook@lemmy.world
                1·
                1 year ago

                You seem to be imagining things about people you don’t know based on prejudice. Kinda like holding up a strawman to pretend to fight.

                I support all of Americans’ Constitutional rights 100% but that doesn’t equate to actively trying to put guns in people’s hands. There’s clearly a place for regulation of the right, and we have that in place currently with age limits and background checks required for all retail gun purchases. Gun safety courses are required for a hunter to get a hunting license. So we have gun control already and I’m OK with that.

                I’m not OK with any further restrictions on our Constitutional Rights, and I believe that more rights should be added rather than any infringements of the ones we already have. For example there should be a right to Privacy and Bodily Autonomy added to the US Constitution. We should also add some form of a right to access basic healthcare, without forcing any doctors to work without pay or in undue hardship.