The Goodhue Police Department resigned due to issues with the city’s pay, Mayor Ellen Anderson Buck said at a city council meeting Monday.
The Goodhue Police Department resigned due to issues with the city’s pay, Mayor Ellen Anderson Buck said at a city council meeting Monday.
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.
About 1% of the population has a criminal record. So 1 cop for every 5?