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‘This is Heartbreaking’: Minnesota
Town’s Entire Police Force Resigns

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 8/16/2023 7:12:20 PM

The small town of Goodhue, Minn., is set to lose its entire police force next Wednesday after ten officers announced their intention to resign over lack of funding. The entire force tendered their resignations during a city council meeting on Friday following news that police chief Josh Smith had submitted his resignation the previous day. “This is heartbreaking to us,” the town’s mayor, Ellen Anderson Buck, said following an emergency council meeting held on Monday to address the matter. Smith and one fellow officer will remain on active duty until this coming Wednesday. “Since the resignations have been handed in by our police department, it has been recommended

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Venturer 8/16/2023 7:18:41 PM (No. 1535770)
Police Officers are hard to find in Minnesota. These men have already been trained so whoever hires them doesn't have to spend money training them. Area's having a problem getting officers are offering better pay and more benefits. This town is probably as safe as anywhere in the state, and these officers are safer there, but they want the better salaries so they leave. The answer is to pay up or lose these men. make the decision.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: scottj 8/16/2023 7:22:27 PM (No. 1535774)
I love seeing these hate filled liberals actually get what they want. They hate the police. Lets see how they like it now that the police are gone.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: jalo1951 8/16/2023 7:52:02 PM (No. 1535794)
This is what I call "defunding the police" at it's best. You wanted it, you go it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: SweetPea3 8/16/2023 8:02:39 PM (No. 1535804)
Calling all crooks! Get on board for Goodhue. No police...a crook's paradise!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Bur Oak 8/16/2023 8:10:53 PM (No. 1535807)
Why does a town of 1,300 have a police force of 10?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Knotwyrkin 8/16/2023 8:21:00 PM (No. 1535812)
To staff 365 days a year, you need 4.7 FTE. Two officers on at a time, one chief = 10 officers.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: wilarrbie 8/16/2023 9:19:06 PM (No. 1535832)
When 'due process' gets all whack and only works for criminals. Due process door swings both ways.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Corndoggies 8/16/2023 9:27:13 PM (No. 1535837)
I’m with #5. That’s 1 officer for every 130 residents. In our closest small town of 800 we had ONE officer and he drove drunk and died. That was over a year ago. The county Sheriffs cruise through every so often. My husband’s parents live in town and there’s no crime to speak of. We’re in a similar area like Goodhue, no major cities too close by.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Safari Man 8/16/2023 10:03:28 PM (No. 1535849)
Heart WARMING
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Reply 10 - Posted by: ussjimmycarter 8/16/2023 10:30:48 PM (No. 1535864)
Live in one of the safest places in the USA! I’m in Minnesota! If our council ever disrespects cops, they are going to be unelected!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: DVC 8/16/2023 10:56:42 PM (No. 1535870)
Doesn't bother me in the slightest. But the folks who live there - seems like a lot of cops for a tiny town, and maybe they need to decide whether they want/need that many cops and whether they'll cough up the green to pay for them.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: DVC 8/16/2023 11:13:26 PM (No. 1535875)
Chicago murder rate is 29.6 per 100,000. Minneapolis murder rate is 10 per 100,000. If this town of 1300 has the same number of murders as the big city average, that would get them 0.129 murders per year, or about one every 8 years, on the average. St. Paul is only 7 per 100K, or 70% as much. So if this small town is as bad as St. Paul, they can expect 0.09 murders per year, or about one every 11 years. Rapes....St. Paul's rape rate would get them 0.9 rapes/year, and the St. Paul aggravated assault rate would get them 4.5 aggravated assaults per year, or about one every three months. I'll bet that they don't reach up to St. Paul's crime rate numbers, so maybe they don't really need a whole lot of policing. A murder every 11 years, maybe one rape a year, and an assault every three months....doesn't sound like a crime wave (unless you're the victim) and it's probably way lower than these rough numbers.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Strike3 8/17/2023 3:18:25 AM (No. 1535970)
Most democrat policies are "heartbreaking" so get used to it. Officers are currently sitting in Minneapolis jails for attempting to arrest a drug impaired thief. Who wants to risk working for people who do that to you?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Richard from Norwood 8/17/2023 5:13:47 AM (No. 1535999)
Re; "“At this point, there’s no reason to really talk about pay increases, since we no longer have a police force.” Ellen Anderson Buck This should be MORE proof that the LIBRAL mind just refuses to even try to reason!!! What is wrong with these people that refuse to even try to reason???
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Reply 15 - Posted by: anniebc 8/17/2023 6:50:14 AM (No. 1536035)
Oh those poor welfare recipients in this town must be frightened of losing their benefits. Oh my! That would be tragic.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Ashley Brenton 8/17/2023 7:10:41 AM (No. 1536053)
The county sheriff's department can cover down on this fly speck of a town. If I had to guess, a significant portion of the town's tax revenue already went to the police budget, which they undoubtedly boosted by being mostly a speeding ticket paper mill.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: kono 8/17/2023 11:40:30 AM (No. 1536261)
10 cops for a town of 1300 seems extravagant; but 1 cop is inadequate, unless you want him to burn out and crash (ala the one in #8) How about some compromise between those extremes?
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Reply 18 - Posted by: pensom2 8/17/2023 9:17:15 PM (No. 1536663)
I would have thought most small towns would be mostly conservative, not regressive, even in Wisconsin. Why would the citizens want to avoid pay raises for police after how much Biden inflation has eaten up their ability to feed a family? I'm thinking there must be more to this story that we're not aware of. Maybe the mayor gave herself and the city council a cushy pay increase, leaving no room to give the police a raise. Or maybe the town is so safe they think paying for a police force is unnecessary--rely on the county sheriff officers.
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