Posted on 08/01/2017 12:14:06 PM PDT by Morgana
The entire police force of Sand Point quit in July, leaving the town without any law enforcement presence.
Sand Point is an Aleutian island town of about 1,000 that swells by several hundred people during the summer commercial fishing and processing season. Until mid-July, it had a police force of three officers and a police chief.
Trouble started around July 10, when the first police officer quit when his military spouse was transferred out of state, said city manager Andy Varner.
Soon after, two police officers — a married couple — resigned from their jobs "to take care of some personal family issues."
That left police chief Roger Bacon.
But when Bacon opted to go on a long-planned monthlong vacation to Scotland, leaving the town without any police presence, Bacon and the city council made a "kind of mutual" decision that he wouldn't have a job when he returned, according to Varner.
"It wasn't that acrimonious," he said.
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For now O_O
So are their taxes going to go down now?
That's right. Alaska has "Boroughs".
Better golf courses.
Help wanted...Police officers for small town in Alaska. Opportunity to be chief if you are the first application into the town.
I worked in a cannery for four years while in college. It was on the Aleutian Peninsula.
Once a ‘dude’ was trying to ‘hit’ on this young woman (YM) at a bar.
The man next to the YM told the guy to beat it.
The ‘dude’ told the man to F-off as it was none of his business.
The man said: “Leave my daughter alone!”
The ‘dude’ repeated is vulgarity and pushed the man, a commercial fisherman.
The ‘dude’ received a knife in the skull and assumed room temperature.
Several days later police arrived and told the man he was just protecting his own.
Some places really don’t need 24/7 policing...
When I grew up in a small Alaskan town, we had A Marshall.
He also took care of the electric generator. The lights came on at 0600 and off at 2400. Now we had a jail, but not one in it except on Saturday night. When our marshall got drunk
his wife wouldn’t let him come home, so he slept in our “jail” and our lights didn’t come on until anywhere from 1000 to 1200. Life was good in those day. Now when the Cheechawkoes came up from the states, our marshall did use the jail for some of them.
“They could do the same with MD’s in remote locations.”
Sounds like an episode of Northern Lights.
The only thing wrong with the Aleutians is that it’s full of Aleuts!
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