From Minnesota to Maine, Ohio to Texas, small towns unable to fill jobs are eliminating their police departments and turning over police work to their county sheriff, a neighboring town or state police.
honestly, It might be prudent to take the police force to a larger, broader agency from a hiring standpoint.
I mean, when a cop fucks up and gets fired, they just go to a near by agency and apply there. If there was one agency in the state, even if that agency had a few hundred precincts, then that couldn’t happen nearly as easily.
The solution to bad cops getting hired elsewhere is truly simple, and as American as apple pie.
Make them carry insurance.
Bad cops with strikes on their record have to pay higher and higher and eventually cost prohibitively higher rates for them to hold the title/badge/weapons.
Also, profit. Off of your tax dollars. As American as apple pie.
And to require the police to live in the areas that they police again. They shouldn’t be able to ruin a community just to clock out and go home 3 towns over.
I know of apartments owned by groups of cops, how will that be enforced?
I know it is an edge case but what would you do about areas that have police but effectively no residents? Teterboro NJ, City of Industry California, etc.
The solution is to put them in jail for abusing their power and barring them from having future police jobs.
precisely. They don’t even need to pay for their premiums, as long as it’s individual insurance. most cops today would be uninsurable, though.
Our sheriff is a corrupt piece of shit and apathetic people keep voting him in anyway. So this wouldn’t help here.
My small town’s sheriff is a corrupt, and people vote him in because they know him.
The part about sheriffs scares me as someone not well-versed in American affairs because I read previously that some sheriffs don’t believe that federal laws should apply to them and that could be good, I guess? But could also be really bad.
Sherrifs straddle the line between law enforcement and politician, and their positions often have questionable accountability protocols.
However they are 100% subject to local, state, and federal laws if investigated and charged by any of those bodies.
If the state and feds are also corrupt locals?
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Yep.
Mostly the second one.
The “some sheriffs” thing refers to so-called Constitutional Sheriffs (https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/constitutional-sheriffs) which is a fringe movement which isn’t representative of that type of LE group by itself. And they can pretend to be above the law in a way normal law enforcement isn’t, but they’re brought back to Earth when they’re sued.
Alas in general, police, sheriffs, and state troopers, in this country have very little accountability thanks to issues unrelated to that movement (“Qualified immunity” is the main reason, a doctrine that says that a government employee can’t be held individually accountable for something they did as part of their job, even if they’re not allowed to do it as part of their job), but the Constitutional Sheriff movement is largely orthogonal to that and there’s nothing inherent about sheriffs that make them less accountable than city police.
Throw the corrupt pigs in a cell.
