Posted on 04/25/2016 8:43:28 AM PDT by Nachum
If you find yourself in an emergency situation in Green Mountain Falls, Colo., don’t bother calling police.
In this scenic western hamlet, they no longer exist.
All four members of the 700-person town’s police force — Tim Bradley, the police chief, and three volunteer reserve officers — resigned April 14 because of an alleged policy dispute with the municipality’s newly elected mayor, according to Fox affiliate KXRM-TV.
Residents told the station that they weren’t exactly sure why the resignations occurred.
“Our marshal and three deputies quit, and that’s about all they said,” Ann Pinell said. “We’ve had our hometown marshal for many, many years, so I sure hope we get another marshal in our town.”
[‘The guy was swinging to kill’: Contractor caught on camera attacking dogs with pipe wrench]
A reporter from KXRM-TV who visited police headquarters was unable to get inside the building, which was empty and had the lights turned off. A town meeting summary hanging in the local post office states that Bradley’s resignation had been accepted, but it provides no other details, the station reported.
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I've worked in federal and state govt and had my own businesses and worked for other private businesses. The highest salaries I earned were always when I worked in the private sector either for a company or for myself, and the lowest salaries were when I worked in govt. If you lost your job and have nothing to live on, you have my sympathy, but you pretty much have no one to blame but yourself for not planning ahead.
“Police are minutes away when seconds count!”
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Stupid statement.
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Can’t randomly shoot dogs anymore?
I do?
I’m talking about an issue that the public turns a blind eye to because it is complacent, not because it is conservative.
They assume that everything is Andy Griffith clean. The result has been bankruptcies of cities and states.
I talk as a concerned citizen. You seem to be talking as complacent.
It isn’t stupid — they are oversold (and personal arming, undersold).
The truth hurts, but the choice is yours on how you go through life. The best lesson you can teach your children is to save money their whole life and don’t ever waste it when you are making good money.
You are hard of reading if you read that in anything I wrote.
Why are you so bent on drawing attention away from the government racket, with such high sounding philosophization?
Just because a deal is possible doesn’t mean those who enter into it are wise.
You seem to be covering up. Do you have relatives on the state pay in a juicy situation like this that you are trying to morally justify to yourself?
Well, the sheriff will do the job
I think his name is Longmire, no, that’s Wyoming
Right, this sheriff is Bill Elder. I'm sure El Paso County sheriffs department can back fill for a four man department.
It isn’t when you live in a remote rural area-I doubt that there is even one person out here who does not have the means to defend themselves within easy reach-and I don’t mean picking up a cell phone-unless a deputy happens to be working in your area at that moment, assistance from the law is 15-30 minutes away-you have to be responsible for your own safety...
Not unusual for these tiny burgs in Colorado to lose their entire police force all at once; however, it’s unusual for them to quit: usually they get fired all at once for corruption, nepotism, incompetence, etc.
All four members of the 700-person town’s police force
Several years ago the only “real” town-the county seat, with less than 900 people-canned their few town cops for reasons that included harassing tourists-the biggest source of income out here-and of course bribery. Went to just having a town marshal, and all has been quiet since...
If anyone is trusting on the police to save them they are lost regardless.
I like that series. Lots of beautiful Wyoming scenery. (Not everyone watches it, it seems.)
The salary of the police chef is $12,000 per year.
The other 3 employees are part time.
A change in policy or wages by the new mayor?
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