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.

  • Alto@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.