Posted on 04/23/2025 12:36:43 PM PDT by simpson96
An entire Ohio police department, including the chief, resigned Tuesday over a lack of support and clashes with village officials.
"As a department, we have decided that enough is enough," said Sgt. Renatta Griffith, one of the members of the Craig Beach Police Department who stepped down during a Village Council meeting, according to WFMJ-TV. "We're tired of being disrespected and micromanaged. … Our resignations are exactly what the council was trying to accomplish."
Griffith and four other officers spoke at the podium during Tuesday's meetings and turned in their badges. After that, officials requested that they left the building.
"We can not legally get rid of the police department, but what we did want them to do is their job," Council Member Charlotte Ashe said.
The Mahoning County Sheriff's Office, which handles 60% of the village's calls, will provide service. Mayor James Becker said he doesn't expect the walkouts to effect village public safety.
But the resigning officers feel the village will be negatively impacted by their departure.
"We are losing a great group of police officers dedicated to the Craig Beach community," Sgt. Michael Hudson said. "We are the first on the scene when we're working on the beach compared to other departments. They are busy on their terms, and this is our turf. I feel bad for the residents."
Chief Kyle Pettus was not at the meeting. In December, he was briefly laid off after publishing social media posts critical comments of village officials.
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So the Ohio state police dept is caput. Sill leaves city police dept’s.
Either the mayor or the author needs to brush up on grammar.
No, just one town.
A village doesn’t need a police department. It’s better to sub out to the county sheriff.
Not enough information here to tell who is in the wrong. Most likely, the town will be OK with the county providing services...
Craig Beach is a little settlement of about 1000 people on the shore of Lake Milton. It mostly has fishing, golf courses, wineries and an amusement park.
Could be auto correct. It gets all of us now.
Population of about a 1000.
For something that small, I doubt they actually need a police force. They probably spend the bulk of their time handing out speeding tickets or what not.
Sheriff department will pick up the slack and not have these issues.
Because the sheriff is elected, they are usually tied closer to the community (care what people think) and don’t have the issues PDs have.
PDs are notoriously unresponsive to the needs or wants of the community.
Officers claimed the village council was unsupportive, refusing to fund necessary equipment, such as new police cruisers. The department had three vehicles, but they were unreliable due to dead batteries from infrequent use. A proposal to purchase two used cars with high mileage was rejected by the council, which also questioned the need for more than two cruisers.Must be a sleepy little town if the batteries in their police cruisers go dead from infrequent use! That's something I've never heard of before!
That sounds like high school clique crap.
Call Antifa next time you are being robbed.
Al 3 of them?
Is that actually right?
Sounds like somewhere I wouldn’t mind moving too, if the police don’t get a single call often enough to keep their car battery charged. I mean, not even a cat-in-a-tree call?
No crime? No speed traps? Nothing?
These guys lost a good gig.
Must be they got their donuts delivered. lol. Kidding!
But who will enforce mask mandates and church closures during a pandemic now?
From the article, with no direct knowledge of my own, I would say that the council had set up things so that the officers couldn't do their jobs. I don't know which is closer to residents' wiches - police or council - but in my experience a lot of city councils are the problem, just as a fair percentage of police departments are problematic.
Honestly, I don't have enough information to make a call on that.
In a related story, “Judge” Boasberg has written his own Judicial Executive Order that all Tren De Aragua illegal trespassers that remain in the United States be immediately provided one-way airline tickets, and housing, in Craig Beach. If there are not enough unoccupied hotels, apartments, AirBnB, etc, the richest Caucasian residents will be moved to tent cities, funded by those same, rich Caucasians.
Sounds like there’s a big uptick of calls in the summer when people descend on the lake. Probably drunks.
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