• TommyCatkins [none/use any]@hexbear.net
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        Chuds think that if there isn’t a police force then the city will descended into a Mad-Max style apocalyptic hellscape. NVM that they only have a population of about 800 so it isn’t like their job can’t just be done by the county sheriff anyway even if you think that police are an absolute necessity.

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          I think this one is moreso to protect his reelection chances. If he doesn’t appeal the chuds can turn on him for being anti police or a lib. That being said there is a huge likelihood he is also chummy w the fired jackwagons

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            2 months ago

            I think this one is moreso to protect his reelection chances

            Oh no, this is going to hurt his reelection chances, if people remember it that is. What happened to this dept sounds similar to what happened to a town of similar size north of me right on the county line, the dept got busted for corruption. Said police dept had a very bad reputation, everybody in the tri-county area knew full well that if you got pulled over by a cop there they will find something to ticket you over, or in some cases i’ve heard, pull you over for no reason.

            That being said there is a huge likelihood he is also chummy w the fired jackwagons

            That’s 100% what’s going on.

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          Chuds think that if there isn’t a police force then the city will descended into a Mad-Max style apocalyptic hellscape.

          Okay just a slight correction, because that’s not quite true. They do think that, but only for major urban cities like Baltimore, New York, Chicago, ect., all the way down to the major rural city sizes, like Mt Orab OH, Circleville OH, and Kenton OH as examples for a size reference. But for the South Charleston OHs, or the Bainbridge OHs of the world, they think cops are the most useless wastes of time and resources.

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              What kind of fucking place is that

              Places that dot the land between large cities, they’re either counted as a village or a city depending on the population of said place… except the difference between village and city depends on the state. Like for example in Ohio, you’re a village if you have at least 1,600 population, though that’s not really a hard rule, but if you reach 5,000 population you’re now counted as a city. Other states do things differently in so many ways.

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            It depends. I live in a rural city in Ohio that’s around the same size as Circleville. There is plenty of cop worship here (granted this was an unofficial sundown town). I’m not too sure what the opinion is like out in the villages and townships in the area, but when the Ohio Republican party tells the rural farmers that “radical liberals” want to define the police they all snap in line. They love cops right until they have to deal with one themselves.

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              They love cops right until they have to deal with one themselves.

              Yeah, that’s pretty much it. They love cops everywhere else mostly, I have encountered people who have low opinions of cops in other states, but the local cops get a lot of ire too.

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      Because privatization is a prelude to cutting wages and benefits and security, and the main reason people become cops in the US is because it’s a solid career. They want to cut wages and benefits and security for teachers, not police.

      Always pay your guys. When you stop paying your guys, they’re no longer your guys.

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    It’s ironic the police department was closed due to failure to properly bribe higher officials.

    As a consequence well meaning people were allowed to close it down