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.
That is an incredible number of police for any town.
I would get rid of them, in favor of alternatives.
Yes, but police officers don't work 24/7. They have to sleep, same as anyone else.
How many on active duty at any one time? A third at most?
[Not bad — one officer for every 134 residents. Must be the safest village in Wisconsin.]
The primary responsibility of the full-time officer was to follow the school buses around twice a day to make sure everybody followed the rules about stopped school buses. And that was just what everybody wanted. When an officer left, it was usually because of boredom, or they found a full-time position in a larger town.
I read elsewhere that they are left with 1 full time, and 4 part time officers now. So in reality they lost 83% of their full time officers.
To put this in perspective, I work in a job that we need to have staffed 24/7. We are required to have 2 people minimum during the day. In order to function at all washout massive amounts of OT, we need 5 people. And it we only have 5, NO ONE gets to take any time off. Period. We do have 7 people normally, and that way we get to have a vacation every now and then. It’s just the way 24/7 shift work, works.