There will be blood in the streets!
Due to budget constraints, a town to close the police force.
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October 17th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
Rockford did that a few years back.
October 18th, 2012 at 9:09 am
Well…there would be less blood in the streets were it to be the NYPD affected.
October 18th, 2012 at 9:48 am
See the News Story out of the Pacific NorthWest where some small town had the same thing happen? Their Solution?
Armed Civilian Posses.
October 18th, 2012 at 11:27 am
Our town did that after the cops stole a couple million bucks. Then we hired it out a few years later, and now the new contract cops are reportedly excited to have guns and badges, and a motorcycle gang is keeping the crack dealers away.
Im glad I live up the hill from all of that. a nice bit up the hill.
October 18th, 2012 at 3:30 pm
I Don’t Know What There Paying Those Guys But It Must Not Be Much According To This “Nickerson could save about $118,000 a year in police department pay, health and retirement benefits and other costs if the closure becomes permanent, City Clerk Robin Schmitt said.”They Got A Bargain If That The Case Keep Them On!!!
October 18th, 2012 at 3:45 pm
Bubblehead — This it?
http://www.blackchristiannews.com/news/2012/10/armed-citizens-in-oregon-take-the-place-of-police-force.html
Funny thing is that I haven’t seen this story spread far and wide (even though it’s ultimately from the AP). Nevertheless, armed citizen patrols are really the sign-of-things-to-come (especially in rural and semi-rural areas), not the “blood on the streets” meme pushed by the MSM.
The silver lining? Armed citizen patrols will prioritize what laws are enforced in their communities. It’ll be like a militia version of jury nullification. I’d imagine these groups will keep a sharp eye out for assaults, homicides, and other serious crimes; and turn a blind eye to BS laws like misdemeanor marijuana possession, leaf burning, and zoning violations. Lots of room for potential abuse, too, but liberty has its risks.
October 18th, 2012 at 4:33 pm
Read the same article last night Mike.
I would appear crime dropped, not rose when armed citizen patrols took over.
I’d be interested to see how long it can be maintained.
October 18th, 2012 at 6:50 pm
good goddam riddance
October 18th, 2012 at 7:33 pm
I went to college in Sterling, KS, and I remember the little town of Nickerson. Pretty, but so small that if you blinked while driving thru it, you missed it.
October 19th, 2012 at 8:59 am
Mike.. best part of that aticle is the quote from the Sherrif:
He added that “people drawn to this sort of thing are the kinds of personalities more likely to take it too far.”
I bet that was one of the problems in the first place 😉
October 19th, 2012 at 9:02 am
I’ve always been curious about something. According to the National Fire Protection Association, 71 percent of firefighters in the United States are volunteers. Why can’t that be done with police? Have a small cadre of specialized officers, e.g. detectives, SWAT, undercover, instructors, that are full time tired police, but make your regular patrol officers volunteers. Give them uniforms, regular training, and cover them with insurance. The rest of the equipment (gun,baton, pepper spray, radio, etc) is owned by the department and checked out to officers when they go on duty. Have volunteers do so many weeks of traning and meet some physical standard to become officers. Afer that, have a requirement of 10 or 20 hours per month of patrol duty, and one Saturday a month of continued training. It would be very cheap to run a department like that. And I bet it would result in very good police/community relations.
October 19th, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Camden, N.J. did the same thing last month. Shut down a 460 member police force and told the county to cover it.
October 20th, 2012 at 5:26 pm
First, $1500 average property taxes in a town of 1,000? I suspect the town needs an independent audit of its government. That figure is ridiculous.
Second, if they do shut down the police department, five bucks says crime will drop rather than rise.