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.
Thanks to our strong 2A rights those citizens can easily protect themselves.
“A gun in every dog!” The next 2a chant.
Dw the meth head down the street has you covered
Especially now that he’s unemployed
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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.
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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Finally, a city with good police.
So right now with our current — trying to hire at $22 an hour, you’re never going to see another person again walk through those doors. That’s it," Smith said. “Unless you guys do a dramatic change.”
Smith stressed the urgency of the matter and said smaller police departments he has looked into pay at least $30 an hour.
I wonder if these cops support raising the minimum wage.
I’d be a cop for that. A good one that doesn’t just look for reasons to murder.
Yeah, except I know plenty of people who have gone into policing bright eyed and idealistic. Your coworkers are regular police who reinforce every bad thing you hear about.
None of those people in question lasted
Only good cops get fired and outcasted.
I mean in fairness, our local McDonald’s is paying 16-18 an hour… So getting 22 to do a job that most people wouldn’t want to do and forces you to deal with people you’d normally try to avoid, doesn’t sound like a hard ask.
So getting 22 to do a job that most people wouldn’t want to do and forces you to deal with people you’d normally try to avoid
Are you talking about working at mcdonalds or being a cop?
Yes.
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.
Nothing in this article said anything about the police in question being corrupt of abusive of their power.
It said US Police…
Adequately paid when you account for all their OT and other forms of compensation. plus the perks of being unfirable and immune to 99.9999999999% of prosecution. Since police corruption is systemic, and these cops are a part of that system, these cops are by definition corrupt.
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.
Nobody wants to work anymore.
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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.
Source? Is this really a common enough thing, or just an edge case? How much overtime is required? What about the $20-something/hour mentioned in the article?
This is a problem in Massachusetts, because we require officers for every road construction project, instead of flaggers, but I also thought this was an exception
The real problem in Massachusetts is that the Staties were getting paid OT for traffic details when they were actually asleep in bed.
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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Brb, moving to Goodhue, Minnesota
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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.
Those pigs just needed to pull harder on those boot straps
Time to call a crackhead
Beats a racist with a power complex anyday. Although there is a significantly higher overlap than you’d think.
Good.
Now the rest of police
from all departments
need to just do the same
and we’ll be good.
