Likely the village board wants to use rent cops from a larger center or private security guards in order to cut costs.
There’s a town that desperately needs to have Abbott send them about 6 busloads...
Five members of a Wisconsin police force resigned on the same day - an exodus that represents nearly half of the department.So, if five resigned and that is NEARLY HALF of the department, then the department must have 11 officers. It must be a big town to have a police force that size. But Wiki says...
Big Bend is a village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,483 at the 2020 census.Not bad -- one officer for every 134 residents. Must be the safest village in Wisconsin.
Lot of small towns have trouble recruiting and keeping police, and decide to contract with county sheriffs. Happens a lot.
A town of 1500 in a Milwaukee area Waukesha County of 400,000.
Reminds me of a headline about a small town nearby:
“xxxxville DOUBLES police force”
Reading down further:
“With the hiring of officer Smith....”
How many banks and fast food joints there? Money!!
I guess the criminals now know where to go for easy pickin’s.
Hell...the entire county of Mayberry only had one sheriff and a deputy.
Village Idiots (board).
We have a small police force, just a couple officers, and rely on the staties for back up.
At the last town hall meeting, someone tried to push for cutting the force more, but heck, who can work 24/7? Nobody can even be on call for that much time.
And yes, we are safe. But this is very rural NH and almost everyone is armed and the cops are really good about it.
But on occasion, there is the need for more than one guy and it happens just often enough for the vast majority of the town to vote to keep them.
FWIW, they like it here.
If the village police are eliminated, does that mean the state police supposedly pick up the slack?
Big Bend Wisconsin is NOT out in the willywags. It’s a far suburb of Milwaukee. A bedroom community, surrounded by other bedroom villages.
Looking at the map, Big Bendis clearly a Bedroom community of both Milwaukee & Waukesha, with a mix of farmland & upscale neighborhoods - lots of pools & garages. Very little retail.
Given the close proximity to 2 cities & the nice neighborhoods, they may have a problem with burglary & carjacking. This might explain the large police force.
The town has a population of 1483, and is 3.1 square miles. There are 1442 whites and 7 Blacks. (Blacks are disproportionately over represented in the criminal class.) Ten police officers is one policeman for every 150 residents. If New York City had the same ratio, it would have over 57,000 police. It actually has 36,000.
Why the outrage?
It’s ‘defunding the police’.
Literally. $250k savings annually, the ‘board’ says.
Wisconsin residents are truly trying to take back their state, as outlined here
https://www.wisconsinrightnow.com/wisconsin-losers-of-the-year-2023/
This board in ‘Village of Big Bend’ just performed its last desperate act, I predict.
Please ping us with an update when the village residents respond to the board.