In a town of only 700 and nobody knows why they quit. BS.
In another article on this, it states that the sheriff actually quit last November and that the town’s bylaws state that there must be a sheriff in place. Since there has been no sheriff since November, the rest of the officers were forced to quit.
I’m amazed this is national news. If you go and ask the seven hundred residents of the town....I’m pretty sure that 500 of them know the reason.
About a decade ago from the town in Alabama where I grew up...the one and only cop (referred to as a ‘chief’ as well) had drafted up and ran some auxillary deputy force (six individuals) who were running weekend road-blocks and harassing both town residents and those coming into the town for gas or groceries. This is a town of about 500 individuals.
For roughly three years, people tried talking to the town council and mayor....none were willing to listen to the complaints....so when the election came....the residents voted out most of the city council members and the mayor. New crew came in, and they ordered the auxiliary force to be disbanded....with the police chief getting all furious at the meeting. So they kinda hinted to him....he had 30 days to find work elsewhere and leave. That’s exactly what he did. He moved four counties over and continued the same sub-standard cop methods and harassment.
The new cop hired for the small Ala town? It was laid out in blunt language...no auxiliary people and no road-blocks.
The journalism in this case for Colorado? It’s marginal stuff that you’d expect out of a 12-year-old kid.
All four members of the 700-person town’s police force