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.
Our little town of 700 has a Chief and one officer. It’s very hard to retain officers here. One guy was here a long time, but recently we’ve had tenure measured in months. One guy was a pure scammer looking to get let go and hit the jackpot.
There should be no ‘town police’. They are accountable to the town council, not the people. They are misused as a revenue source for the town via silly parking ticket ordnances, etc.
Sheriffs, on the other hand, are elected by the people and accountable to the people.
“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.”
Absolutely. When I was a young man our town of 3500 did exactly that. They just could not afford their own city dept anymore.