How the hell did he get to be a Police Chief at the age of 30?
Small town. My brother was made Fire Chief. of a small town just a few months after moving in.
I was wondering that. The town’s population is only 430 people, so....
A classmate of mine became chief of the Illinois State Police at age 29.
Maybe Sandusky wrote him an appointment letter!
“How the hell did he get to be a Police Chief at the age of 30?”
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I live very close to Weissport. It is a small boro that was founded way back before the Revolution and in past times supported the Lehigh Canal which transported coal to eastern markets. There is nothing going on in Weissport today, about 400 people live there, semi-impoverished. No food stores, no fire department and there is an elevated road bridge (US Rt 209) that bisects the town. Up until the pandemic, it hosted an yearly “Redneck Festival” which was in good humor but aptly named. It’s a place that you drive through, holding your breath.
As to the police chief, there is never more than one police employed at any one time so by default whoever is the police is the chief. Most of the time there is no police, the boro depends on state police or either Lehighton, Franklin or Mahoning Twp. Usually they hire someone for police and they stay only as long as it takes to get another gig.
Not blaming the girl and not wanting to sound like a jerk, and Getz should be locked up forever and ever but a good portion of the citizens there are dysfunctional. Lots of recreational drug users.
Here is the reporting from the local news outlet. This has been going on for quite a while.
https://www.tnonline.com/20220311/former-chief-convicted-of-all-counts-faces-potentially-long-state-prison-t/
“How the hell did he get to be a Police Chief at the age of 30?”
I wondered same thing must be very small town with only two or three officers.
Probably politics.