The Goodhue Police Department resigned due to issues with the city’s pay, Mayor Ellen Anderson Buck said at a city council meeting Monday.
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
What law? Didn’t you hear? All dem good apples up and left cuz the city wouldn’t concede to their good-apple extortion.
Thanks to our strong 2A rights those citizens can easily protect themselves.
“A gun in every dog!” The next 2a chant.
No idea what you’re talking about. Dogs can’t buy firearms as they usually don’t reach the required minimum age of 18.
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
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.
Dw the meth head down the street has you covered
Especially now that he’s unemployed
FUCK that was spicy
And nothing of value was lost.
I generally agree with the ACAB sentiment, but they were being paid $22 an hour which is a pittance. I wouldn’t do the job for that salary either.
Pay depends on the area, if everyone else is making 13 then 22 is a kings salary. Should it work that way at this point? No but it does and being a cop statistically is less dangerous than my job.
I live in one of the poorest states in the country, and even there, 22 is barely above average. So that a fuckin’ lie. This state has TWO of the most dangerous cities in America. Not even the desperate would police this shit for that money.
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The article complains similar small towns were offering $30/hr
It’s not just the raw danger it’s also the shit you have to deal with. I can’t imagine the stress of it. I wouldn’t do it.
Not to mention with this acab bullshit it’s even less than thankless.
I have a client who was responsible for recruitment for the local police and she said it was difficult to find people, which leads to worse conditions, more overtime, and more stress for everyone in the department.
Not to mention with this acab bullshit it’s even less than thankless.
Oh right we should be thanking cops for giving us traffic tickets when we just watched them blow through the same stop sign. We should be thanking them for murdering minorities in over policed neighborhoods. We should be thanking them for… checks notes one more time getting afraid of the dog in the yard they’re not supposed to be in and shooting it to death. /s
COPS DESERVE NO RESPECT. THEY ARE NOT HEROES.
You are so fucking cop pilled lmao
I’d sooner eat my own stool than be a cop, but it’s more than $22 if you sit in your idling cruiser looking at your phone while racking up that sweet overtime
Do what job? Eat donuts in the only dunkin donuts in a 1000 person hovel and watch YouTube? Seems like a pretty cushy job for 22/hr. Let’s not act like this place is the height of crime…
Don’t ever make the mistake thinking that cops have a hard or dangerous job.
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.
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Random racism, neat. Way to bring Reddit to Lemmy.
What makes them subhuman mongoloids, Mr. Troll?
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Finally, a city with good police.
FUCK EMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
You’re free. Do something other than police. You kinda have to, now.
I’m all for police reform, but you “fuck the police”/ACAB types are just anarchist idiots with serious inferiority complexes. Nothing in this article said anything about the police in question being corrupt of abusive of their power. They were just underpaid.
Police, in America. You clearly haven’t had any real interactions with them.
From the U.S.
A lot of interactions with police, very positive overall. Biggest issue I ever have had was having to wait over a holiday weekend to get a 1st hearing before being released.
Using the ACAB terminology is a gaurenteed way to ensure racism and bad treatment are fixed at a way slower pace.
Edit: my thought process… Anyone who wants to help change or becomes a cop trying to better the system you are already classifying as a bad person. So now they are trying an up hill battle against people that don’t like them bringing reform, fighting for people that don’t like them and call them names when they’re never met them. Eventually you imagine they give up on the reform because it’s easier and the same pay, and at least the people around them start to like them.
Using the ACAB terminology is a gaurenteed way to ensure racism and bad treatment are fixed at a way slower pace.
So you acknowledge police are racist and abusers and aren’t doing anything to fix it internally?
They still think the concept of a “good cop” exists lmfao. What it must be like to have such an elementary level take.
“There isn’t even a single good cop in the world” is one of the most edgelord 13-year-old takes I’ve ever seen, and you’re acting like his take is oversimplified?
You white, we get it.
Nothing in this article said anything about the police in question being corrupt of abusive of their power.
It said US Police…
Found the cop, family of cop, or regularly beaten “pick-me” wife of cop.
Sure, they’re the one non-corrupt, non-abusive police force in America. Plausible.
Part of the reason we have issues with the police force and their policing is that they aren’t treated like professionals and held to professional standards. We need to pay them like the professionals too, even if that means we hire less.
If we demand higher police pay, we better be raising EMT, social work, and teacher salaries too.
And yes, I know this is whataboutism, but it feels wrong to fund police while some of the support system workers that prevent crime in the first place would be thrilled to be making the hourly rate these cops were.
The posted article complains they were offering $22/hr when similar towns are offering $30/hr. Here’s another article (from 3 years ago) that ranks average police salary in Minnesota as pretty high, just behind Massachusetts, which has a much higher cost of living. seems reasonable to complain is pay much lower than state average or typical of their peers
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2020/04/23/police-officer-salary-state/?sh=72e0096b2010
Oh, I definitely think we need to raise those too. These systems are all needed and aren’t attracting the minds they should because we aren’t paying them.
Police make hundreds of thousands of dollars with overtime in many places even low level officers.
unfortunately same with politicians
Politicians should have the same income as they did before becominh politicians
This means they to get out and get a real job before going into politics. Seeing how things work.preventing dumb career politicians from having no clue how people live.
A lot of them come from money’d backgrounds. Would be easy to just get hired on a high salary from their own company or a family members company. Heck companies could use that to lobby even harder. Hire them on for a year at super high rate and then they get them in politics.
Or maybe the income for politicians should be on-par with any other civil servant. Post workers, trash collection truck drivers, state court clerks, natural park management, it’s all civil services.
They argue that being a politician requires having tons of connections and being a “people-person,” but that’s only because they’ve made it that way over the past 50 or so years. There’s nothing about being a politician that is so essentially different than any other way to serve a government or to help a government serve its people.
Politicians should have their assets placed in a trust for the duration of their term, to encourage them to not run repeated terms. Then the politician should have to live on the median income for their district - to encourage them to improve the entire district and not just their own interests.
So having resigned (quit) they are not eligible for unemployment, I assume.
I would not assume anything when it comes to unemployment. I’ve seen it awarded in all sorts of circumstances, including during a resignation.
I have quit and collected more than once.
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Those pigs just needed to pull harder on those boot straps
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?
Good.
Now the rest of police
from all departments
need to just do the same
and we’ll be good.
Brb, moving to Goodhue, Minnesota
To do crime?
Time to call a crackhead
Beats a racist with a power complex anyday. Although there is a significantly higher overlap than you’d think.
Nice, now do all other police departments in the nation.
Also, the absolute chads over in Powderhorn don’t call the cops anyway, so they will be unaffected.
In other news spirits are soaring in Goodhue, Minnesota.