Now the township is back down to 4 full time cops for a township of some 4000 people.
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Sounds like an appropriate ration 1:1000 ,, they won’t have time for or need to steal from the population via traffic scams to pay for their overtime.
My township only has about 2000 people in it and we had 5 full time cops and no reserves. They were good enough guys and never caused any problems but crime is nearly non existent here and we just couldn’t justify the expense.
By law we have to contract with the county Sheriff but they don’t come out here unless they’re called. I personally haven’t seen one here in town since last fall.