Minnesota mayor 'blindsided' by entire police force's resignation
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- čas přidán 14. 08. 2023
- All seven members of Goodhue, Minnesota's police department have resigned, citing concerns over their pay. KARE's Jennifer Hoff reports.
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No way was she blindsided by this. A whole department isn't quitting without making a lot of noise first.
Yeah... it really wouldn't make sense to just quit without having even asked for a raise, and there would have been a lot of water-cooler discussion... this is not the kind of thing that surprises leadership.
Seems like a chief wanted more control and power…and convinced his subordinates to eat the consequences…
@@JesseRedlumthey did get 5% raises, chief got $13,000 bonus at beginning of year
@brianvail9212 not a bonus,a pay raise.
Sure they are, they’re union. Union members don’t want to put in the work of complaining first because then their issue could get resolved and they’d have to go back to work. Playing this childish game guarantees them a vacation.
Interesting that they didn't interview any of the police officers who quit. Something's not being told here.
If any of those 7 cops wanted to speak, they would have spoken. If they have a legit complaint, now is the time to speak up. Unless their complaint is less than legitimate... then you know they're not going to say a word.
@Dannydolan88 then i want to see a microphone 🎤 in one of their faces while an officer states "no comment". until then, i am skeptical
@@johntempleton3560bottom line.lol😂
@@johntempleton3560nah. Media isn't giving up an opportunity to milk it for more videos/time on air. If we don't see a video of their response by the end of the week, then the officers just don't want to talk. No conspiracy here. I will say though that we have to give it a couple days before we say they are up to something.
@@wiseguy3492 you don't really need a conspiracy when NBC runs an anti police narrative
Saw the green or purple haired lady talking about only needing three cops and it told me all I needed to know about what happened in this city. Hope those Cops got paid what they’re worth and go where they’re wanted
The purple/green/pink/blue hair folk are all over the state of Minnesota. Unfortunately they aren't contained to the twin cities anymore. Entire state is doomed
The autists have taken over somehow
Thats why you don't take women seriously they don't know anything
Idk, their population is really low. 1,252 people. Maybe why they only need 3. Take population in consideration next time ?
doesn't even count on needing a backup for emergencies
Once again we live in a country where something needs to happen before anything gets done.
Elect Trump, if you don't want to see America to continue to fall apart. Biden hasn't put a dime back into our country except paying for the imagrants he's urged to rush to America and paying to have them flown in from all over the world. The UN is flying them to America.
“I think we could do OK with three....” is the logic that got you into this mess. 3 officers with an 8 hour shift will get you 1 day (24H) of coverage. But no days off, no training, no court, no vacation, sick days or injuries. No matter how dedicated, cops are still people with families of their own to raise and support. If you expect their loyalty, then you have to show them your loyalty with a competitive wage.
The 7 they had were all part time. They would be fine with a smaller number if full time officers who could lean on the sheriff's for help if needed
Guys this a 530 people township they should get police from the county sheriff office. Anything is a waste of tax dollars.
I’m more curious why homes in Goodhue are $400k. That’s astronomically high for podunk.
mofos are getting paid 22dls already to police a town where nothing happens.... like for real that's easy money for no risk
@@V4NDITI bet you couldn't do it
No such thing as a blindside quitting at work. It’s many years of grievances going unheard.
Who needs them?
And why is that?
@@fishesstealerbro you have to give it a rest already. The democrats are not the enemy 😂 With the logic you have, defunding the police is a stupid idea, but somehow the republicans wanting to get rid of the FBI and DOJ makes much more sense, right? Give me a break 😂
@@fishesstealer pretty sure they wanted to work for someone who praises their racism and not punish them for it
@@fishesstealer isn't that why they burn down police stations?
That 5% raise brought them to 22 a hour. Good on them
I'm pretty sure they made their grievances known. You just didn't listen.
This had an immediate impact on the town. With in 10 minutes 2 people were seen jaywalking and one of them was old and it took him 30 minutes to get across the street causing a 3-car traffic jam.
dying lol
Police: (Narcissists in clown costume!)
Are the corrupt adversaries of Jesus Christ, the very tumor of wickedness that has destroyed and consumed immeasurable lives manifesting sordid evil onto billions of honorable taxpayers in the guise of justice having been granted power and dominion with qualified immunity over "We the people" with an un-restrained volcanic impurity having a full measure of narcissistic darkened hearts with unbridled hate for people and humanity for self-ego, power, and corporate profit!!!
QUALIFIED IMMUNITY IN ITS ENTIRETY: "Must be abolished" ...!
HAHAHA🤣😆😆
Sounds about right!!🤔🤣🤣
Elderly white "Taxpayers" No longer feel safe leaving the safety of their suburban homes for groceries or doctor appointments!
Police people seem to be the abusers of communities while they steal and extort money, freedom, liberty, privacy, dignity, futures, and sometimes life, for corporate profit and a job! ...
Thank God for online shopping and mail-order prescription medications!
QUALIFIED IMMUNITY IN ITS ENTIRETY; "Must be ABOLISHED" ...!
I’m always amazed how council members have no problems giving themselves raises, but any one else “we just don’t have the $$$”
Do you know that that is what happened here? Or are you just stirring things up like child would?
@@jeffreybryan5591 While, yes, this person should have used a disclaimer, it's not like what they said is untrue. They described issues that happen a large majority of the time in both politics as well as in businesses. Companies who have CEOs who hundreds of millions telling their workforce of thousands that "we just don't have the money" after having just received a salary increase and a $30 million bonus.
@@jeffreybryan5591 The CORRUPT city council IRRESPONSIBLY and GREEDILY, some say they're the most greedy council ever. That's what some very fine people tell me. The best people. They think very, very highly of me. Some of them say I'm perfect. I make perfect posts, like this one. This pouncil, that's what I call them, because they're a bunch of pounces, like I said, they're the most CORRUPT council ever, pay themselves $75 per meeting. And we're going to stop them from stealing from the beautiful people of this town. The most beautiful people. Some say that if they were my daughter I'd grab them by the you know what. When you're their father they let you do that. So donate to my campaign/defense fund.
City council members usually do not make a lot of money, especially in a small town that only had 7 officers.
@@jonathanhill2703 Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Raise your hand if part of your employment in the past required you to sift through over expenditures and budgets of over 100 small towns??? My hand is likely the only one up as it was a nightmare assisting a reporter research for a story that ended up getting pulled (it wasn't about this issue, it was an expected correlation issue that didn't pan out). Almost all of them were sickly corrupt (whether due to current or past corruption but never fixed), spending more on TOWN Council pay than anything else, including NECESSITIES.
Hearing a mayor claim "we are muddling through this" brings little hope for any solution
Only 7 cops and 1 chief? I guess this town doesn’t see that much crime.
“We had no idea “ “they kept complaining about stuff , but we had no idea “
They have the right to quit and work where they want, employers need to understand not everyone wants or has to put up with a crappy job for low pay, free market system out there.
Who is saying they dont have the right to quit?
Their roles will be filled pretty quickly by police that would be happy to move there and take less money (than city cops) to feel less anxious and stressed because its safer and slower.
It can be argued it's irresponsible to quit in this manner, not to mention unprofessional (consider if medical staff did this, for example). I am not on the side of the police, and I'd say this looks badly on any other person's career record, but I am always on the side of better worker pay.
@@Krranski hang on to your hat - because more and more service employees with be quitting. General public ie taxpayers are jerks!! You see this everywhere up in the skies, busses, post office etc No amount of money to pay me to be a cop or a teacher or a nurse.
Amen!
@@clarifyingquestions Totally fine. I agree, I worked in public service as a scientist for a bit for a city and it didn't even pay a mage that allowed me to rent a studio apartment in the city i worked in (I still can't safely afford a home on my salary). I think there are some steps to go through that we didn't get to see before quitting en masse, though.
However... I'd be regret not mentioning here that there is a General Strike movement getting going. Sign your strike card!
Mayor: "I'm blindsided by the entire police force's decision to quit over pay issues. I've decided to appoint myself as chair of a special investigatory committee to get to the bottom of these issues, and will ensure I approve enough paid overtime for myself to fully analyze and understand the root cause of these fiscal concerns."
Little towns like to run roughshod over their tiny police departments, oftentimes treating them worse than they treat the town drunks, so it is not much of a surprise when the city council make empty promises they never intended to keep. What is surprising is the unity shown by the entire department when it came down to being able to afford to feed and house their families. It's a risky venture to up and resign en mass, but there are literally hundreds of bigger departments out there that have serious manpower shortages. It's an employee's market for peace officers right now.
did you not hear that the sheriff got a 13K increase already last year??? do you get a 13K increase in one year ?
@@YesItsReallyKeith There are a couple of things wrong with your assertion. First, he was the Chief of Police, not the Sheriff. The Chief of Police is an appointed position, contracted by the City Council. The Sheriff is an elected official, elected by the voting public.
How can you even comment on this when you don't even know the difference between a Chief of Police and the Sheriff of a county?
Secondly, getting a $13K pay increase would probably have put him in the range of making almostt $40K a year, knowing how stingy small towns can be. That's not bad, but It doesn't come close to what Chiefs of Police make in larger communities. Plus, the COP is usually salaried, so that's all he gets, no matter how many hours of overtime he may be required to put in. He could work an 80 hour work week every week of the year, and he would still get just whatever his salary was in his contract.
@meatpopsicle1567 The town has a relatively low crime rate even without the dedicated police force there's a sheriff department that is in the city hall. It's honestly a waste of money to keep a standing police force when all they do is sit around or just round up the drunks.
@@Tab1300 There are towns who have disbanded their own police departments and contracted the SO for patrol functions. The drawback is that the City must now pay the resident deputies hired to fill any positions agreed upon at the same rate as the County pays its employees, and with the same benefits packages. More often than not, the County pays a higher pay rate than a small city typically pays its police employees. The only real possible savings could be that the City no longer needs to pay for a Chief of Police, with the benefit of any liability that may be incurred by an officer now being shared with the County. However, a lot of departments do not pay their CoPs much more than their patrol officers, so any actual saving, monetarily, would likely be minimal.
One major reason towns want to keep and maintain their own police department is for control. Whenever a community disbands its police department and then contracts the County for law enforcement coverage, the City Council loses the ability to control of the workings and functions, and even the funding, of their resident officers. The Sheriff, who is an elected official and usually the most powerful official in the County, has the final say-so as to how his deputies operate, even if their main patrol area is the small square mileage of an average small American city. City council members tend not to want to surrender that power to an outsider.
@meatpopsicle1567 I live in a town with no police force. I've never heard of what you say are the "drawbacks" even becoming a concern in my time working with the city.
Probably more about poor leadership and/or poor treatment rather than money. The whole department wouldn't leave at the same time. They would leave individually as each officer found a better paying job.
Poor money is part of poor treatment. When you don’t value your employees, money is one aspect of it.
A good leader supports his men and makes a statement by leaving with them but obviously this harms the community they serve. This wasn't a blindsided move they requested more money and were given 5% in a country where you need 20%+ to rise above inflation. Some of that is the price you pay to work in a small town however the job should pay much more than it does. I give the chief credit for doing the right thing. For reference, my coworkers and I received a 19.25% increase over the last 4 years. Due to pay freezes in years prior we need 25% to put us where we should be on the pay scale with our years of service. My department also requires a degree to be hired.
Not necessarily. There isn't a department in this country that isn't hiring. Every one of them could have gotten hired at the next city over within a week.
It was definitely the money, no one is sticking around for $22 an hour when you can go up the road for $35+
Why would anyone quit a police job at a very quiet place where nothing happens??
An obtuse ego makes people do stupid stuff…”nobody is gonna tell me how to run MY DEPARTMENT!!!”…
I guess not enough people for them to abuse.
Listen to audiobooks constantly. Sweet gig
If those 7 tried working in the city for the higher rate, i reckon they'd begging for their old job with lower pay. The danger level and workload are worlds apart.
Pure greed.
A quick look on the internet shows Goodhue MN to have a populated area of less than 0.5 square miles. Where I live, that is the area of a couple of large neighborhoods. There are a bunch of surrounding farms and rural homes who get their police services from somewhere (County sheriff?). It seems like the town of Goodhue would be well off trying to negotiate with the county for police services.
A lot of smaller communities have done that, but a lot of other smaller towns do not like to lose control of their police forces. The Sheriff is not beholding to any single city council in his county, and a lot of big-ego small-town politicians do not like that.
@@meatpopsicle1567 it’s not just that, it’s a matter of actually having police officers nearby when you want them. If you’ve got your own officers, you can have a police officer on scene in minutes, as opposed to the possibility of the nearest officer being half an hour or more away.
@@valerierodgerGoodhue is 6 miles down the highway from Zumbrota, which has a full time police department. They aren't going to notice any difference. The Kenyon- Wanamingo, Zumbrota fire and ambulance already cover Goodhue and a plethora of other small towns in the area. Sheriffs deputies already patrol the area because the police didn't cover 24/7, they actually only did days
@@meatpopsicle1567 Sheriff is beholden to the Voters. That is how All law enforcement agencies should be. Good Deputies rewarded, bad ones replaced
@@edwardt3385 Yes. But, even still, as I stated above, the Sheriff is not beholden to city governments. That is why a lot of small cities would rather have their own police departments, rather than relying on the Sheriff Office. They can't boss around the most powerful man in the county.
A town that small shouldn't have its own separate police department. That's inefficient and impractical. As noted in the story, it should just contract with the county sheriff's office for police services.
1,200 residents and they want/need three cops? There are two small towns near me, about two miles apart, with 1,500 and 3,000 residents respectively. Neither one can afford to support a police department, so they have joined forces and share a police force of one officer between the two.
They had SIX?!? 😂 For what? In that small of a town three is to many.. the sheriff's office already said they handled most of the calls already anyway.. the police were getting paid to literally write a few tickets a day.. waste of $
He must be a really tired cop by now.
Town of 3,000 I grew up in had 1 full-time cop and 1 part-time / on-call deputy.
@@DedmanReactin Here was my experience working as a policeman in a small town: you had a stable of officers. They only worked on this as needed basis. All of them had other jobs. My day job was engineering. You weren’t on all the time, you weren’t on full-time maybe you got 15 hours a month. I can’t speak to this town, however. Typically in small towns, there are many many many hours in the week where there is no coverage. There’s either no coverage or the state picks up. When the state picks up it may be hours before you get an officer response. It’s that simple.
@@nathanjustus6659 doesn't change the fact that there is no way a town of 1500 needs six cops, especially when the sheriff's department handles all the investigations and calls already! The sheriff already said they field almost all the calls anyway so it wouldn't put any stress on em.. they weren't even needed in the first place
there's a difference between BEING protected and FEELING protected, learn the difference soon !!
police only make people feel protected - they will not show up until hours after the victim is dead. next time call a cab cause a cab will arrive quicker
Cops don't feel protected in these liberal run cities!
They will still have sheriffs...
The only person who is going to protect you is you. The police are never going to protect you.
"lost their entire police force". Where's the last place you saw them? It sometimes helps to retrace your steps.
One of the rookies should have stayed on board to get that instant promotion to chief.
A $13,000 increase is pretty amazing, sounds a bit like some are thinking pretty highly of theirselves compared to who they are serving.
Yes, when your already making $ 30K a year, $ 13,000 is a big increase.....
BS. They serve a lot of low-life ignorant people.
Go and be a police officer if you think their salary is amazing.
Hire new officers who’ll take the pay and move on. The town is small af. Tf do these cops expect?
Hire immigrants
Most don’t quit jobs, they quit managers or bosses
Yes, let’s muddle through this! Spoken like a five year old! Not a great place to live if you don’t treat your police staff with such disrespect. Being blindsided means you have no clue running your town!
Approx 20$ a hour while the next county is 30$ doing the same job. Why stay?
All you need is three: Andy, Barney, and Ghomer Pyle. And be sure to pay them well.
Try that in a small town.! Oh wait
You'd still get your a$$ kicked by the residents
Being a police officer is a tough job and they deserve to get paid well for putting their lives at risk.
Mayor: “ it’s a great place to live and work”
Obviously not if your entire police force quit
I never made more than 15 dollars an hour at three ambulance companies and two fire departments. People have no clue how poorly paid we are in most of the us. Most departments are not salary, same for police, some places are. Not most. Most of the us is a volunteer fire department structure or hourly part time, Meaning they don't get paid, or paid by call which is worse. They can make 15 bucks for a day maybe, so they might make 15 bucks for putting out your house fire, doing CPR and saving your child who fell in a pool. I know i did .
Edit- everybody telling everybody to get a different job instead of helping people because it pays less is missing the point. All of you pointing out these low-end jobs paying more are missing the point. No one should be working at a burger restaurant/ retail/ gas station ect. making more money than a front line worker. Frontline workers deserve better pay.
If you check in many rural place officer do make twice or three times as much as firefighters or paramedics per hour.
The majority of people in those places also don't like big government. They don't like paying taxes. And lower taxes = lower pay for police. These people are choosing their own poison.
Same. $11.50/hr as a paramedic
How much do paramedics get paid in the US?\
The average Paramedic salary in the United States is $48,116 as of July 25, 2023, but the range typically falls between $43,394 and $53,760.
I make 30 an hr as a security guard. Jobs are out there if your not a pos
I feel for the lady who said, our town is pretty quiet….there’s a few scammers watching this thinking…not anymore. Better arm yourselves.
Your the only one who sees what's coming by telling the criminals hey we have NO police! A free for all is coming Lady what are you thinking
Was thinking exactly that!
@@yvonneconte3040 Maybe it's a trap to lure in fugitives.
Oh I bet the cops who publicized this are counting on making the city that resisted paying them what they wanted, pay.@@mototechsam3051
I know where I'm going for my next robbery
The one lady said they can do with 3. I don't freekin think so! They don't have a clue what it's like to be a LEO.
My grandmother had twice as many siblings from a single mother and father, as the number of Police Officers who resigned.
Jesus H that's not something to brag about... 15 flippin kids? Was her mother a breeding sow?
@@aick y r u gae
'a single mother' - well with that many children she probably didn't have time to get married.
And your point? Sad family circumstances. Lack of responsibility apparant!
@@aick , Do you think when they say an entire Police Department resigned , most Americans think less than 10 people, were employed by the Police department ?
Any intentional lies or Extreme Attempt to mislead the reader or listener is how we got to the point of another Civil War in the USA.
That's really sad. I hope they can figure something out and soon, can't imagine not having any help in the event of an emergency
911 hold please.
Depend on yourself - stop being such a sniveling weakling - what would your ancestors say!
This had an immediate impact on the town. With in 10 minutes 2 people were seen jaywalking and one of them was old and it took him 30 minutes to get across the street causing a 3-car traffic jam.
Sheriff who is elected and paid for by the county is still on duty.
I know how that feels since I lived for 3 years under LAPD.
Only NBC says a mayor us blindsided when an entire police force resigns. Let the mayor patrol the city....
Goodhue, Minnesota 1173 population in the middle of nothing! You need a police dept???? Close the 2 bars in town and you will not................Sure the country constables can write accident reports just as well. Waste of public money to have police in this town. They have 4 post offices too???
Well, I am all for fair pay, but let's not pretend like these small-town cops are doing the volume of work that deserves the same pay as major metroplitians. A living wage to match that amazing pension they work toward is fair. This town seems to be surviving just fine without them. So what happens now is the town goes from 7 to 5 when they staff. That two they lost off set the cost and remaining people divide or outsource work. They are just going to be more "streamlined and efficient."
Finding Common sense is difficult these days…thank you …
It is still a risky job and regardless of working in a big city or not, you wouldn't put yourself on the line for a 40-50k per year salary? You might as well just work for UPS (Which I heard pays really well), or overwork at a call center.... lol
@@AC-yt3we statistically it's more dangerous to be the UPS driver.
Unsure where you get 5...but all cops quit.
@@AC-yt3weThe level of risk isn't going to be the same as it would be in a large city, though. Especially when you contrast that with a small town with a population of 1,200.
They must be well paid to be able to resign and still make ends meet.
Exactly what I was thinking.
You guys are morons. They might have spouses that also work. It’s a small town In Minnesota. The cost of living is cheaper there. They could have substantial savings. Orrrr wild fkn idea they could go be cops elsewhere
Are you serious? Every police department is hiring right now. Crime is skyrocketing and no one wants to be a police officer anymore thanks to the left.
Yeah its called an emergency fund. And possible getting hired somewhere else before you resign. That's what successful people do, they plan ahead. You should try it.
Most people don't make enough money to "plan ahead". They barely make enough to "scrape by". Get off your high horse.
If she feels blind sided she is not situationally aware and qualified enough to occupy this position. Get rid of her.
Who is going to harass the poor people?
The fire department has said they will fill in that role in this emergency😂😂😂
Same thing happened in a small down near Joplin, Mo as well.
Anderson or neosho
@@vetmom79 Goodman, Mo. They weren’t happy with the Mayor-Elect.
People who live in towns like this want smaller government, less oversight, less taxes... then they're shocked when the police department doesn't have enough funding.
If only someone could have stepped in to give them more money! It must be the mayor's fault.
They really don't need it.
@@paxundpeace9970 Well that is good that they don't need it, since they no longer have it.
Why would they be shocked? They neither want nor need a police force. The police are there to protect the government, not citizens. I hope we see more places doing the same thing. The fewer violent thugs running around with badges and guns, the better.
@@the.seagull.35they have more now lol state patrol and sheriffs office is filling in and actually running 24/7 coverage
@@the.seagull.35 Ide work as a cop for free if it meant I could never get a speeding ticket.
No one works for free. Police work is dangerous and thankless. This is a serious safety issue!
safest town in America right now
They were alreay given raises . The idea that they should be competitive with big cities is nuts.
5% Raise? Thats not enough considering inflation. The reality is if they can go elsewhere and be paid more why would they stay there?
When a cop talks about serving their community or even better the oath they swear I know it's all a bunch of horse hockey. @@AC-yt3we
Do I smell a Liberal Democrat. That probably NEVER been in Law Enforcement!
Especially when they were already underpaid. 5% raise could be $10 a week for all we know.@@AC-yt3we
@@AC-yt3we A lot of big cities and counties are shorthanded. I've even seen adverts where they pay your relocation for new applicants, imagine someone with experience. If I was them I'd have bailed long ago.
A town with 1200 people doesn't need 7 cops. There was a grand bargain in place for all public servants. Sadly teachers are the only ones being forced to live by the arrangement. Public servants used to understand that the city couldn't pay you what the job was worth but you would be well taken care of in retirement. Now police and firemen unions hold cities hostage at every contract negotiation. Some cities are burning half their budgets in police and firemen pay. That's why so many other city services get neglected and taxes are so high. There are police departments all over the country paying cops over 200k per year. Which is ridiculous. Especially when you consider those cities will be paying them 70 to 80 percent of that amount once the retire until they die.
One cop would be better
According to their Sheriff's Department 0 better
How on earth do you cover a 24hr call period. Leaves, sick and medical. Apparently you have never run any business with a 24hr operation.
200K to officers that have just 10 or 15 years of experience and are not even Captain.
@@JDDupuyThis place doesn't need any officer they should contract the sheriff office and transfer 3 officer to them. Nothing else needed.
7 cops and a population of 1200 people? Oh for fucksake. Fire 5 of them and give their pay to the other 2.
They were paying their police ~$46k annually? I'm not a huge fan of cops, but holy crap of course they all quit!
I am sure the three officers will not protect anybody. When are they supposed to sleep? Have a personal life
Its called part time.
I am missing something. Why does a town of 1200 people need 7 police officers? I grew up in a town with 42k and it still has 42 officers.
I doubt they all work 7 days a week 24 hours a day.
would you prefer 1 person?
You are missing something, it's obvious
Revenue collection. You live in a "Heights" type of town where its maybe 1.5 square miles and all they do is ticket people for going 5 over.
I guess you don’t want any police officers. Let us know and we’ll make that happen for you so you can experience lawlessness
Considering that they’re police officers for a Town with 1200 People and they just got raises at the beginning of the year, it kinda feels like these police officers are greedy
If the mayor and city council were blindsided then they were idiots. When the police chief resigned, they had to know the clock was ticking because it signaled to the remaining officers that the city wasn't going to satisfactorily meet the chief's demands and once one officer resigned the others were going to follow. If an employer doesn't provide competitive pay it shouldn't be surprised when their employees leave for greener pastures. As for the mayor's claims that the officers resigned before a city council meeting to negotiate department wage hikes, they had MONTHS to do that and had clearly been dragging it out. Congratulations mayor you won. The police department is no longer demanding more pay because the police department no longer exists.
According to the former Police Chief, the city of Goodhue was offering new hires $22/hr while smaller sized police departments were already offering at least $30/hr making it impossible to find any applicants. The mayor knows that there is a shortage of police officer in the state, if not the country, but unless they make their hourly wages far more competitive they don't stand any chance in rebuilding their police department.
Those officers should consider moving too. I can't see how this wouldn't feel like a betrayal if you lived there.
Crime is about to skyrocket.
The city council is likely going to be replaced at the next election. The officers wanted to be made full time instead of all of them being part time
Yeah right, this ain't 1955
At $ 23 an hour?
@@Novastar.SaberCombat Yep, hope they’re braced for a surge of jaywalking and littering.
The police dept of a town that size should be only 3.5 FTE personnel. 1 Chief, 1 officer on duty for a week, 1 officer on duty the following week, a 0.5 FTE for vacation relief. Officers and chief on call for off duty hours. If the town wants more coverage than that, it needs to be filled by volunteers. Dispatch can be handled by a regional 911 service. The tax rates would have to go far too high if the police department were to continue at that unsustainable staffing level.
That’s why sheriff exists… to police small towns for cheap.
The response time might be horrendous as opposed to having your own PD. But it’s better than nothing 🤷♂️
Stop being greedy and pay people what they are worth.
“How could this happen? All we did was pay them peanuts, destroy morale and overwork them!”
Sounds like a good thing to me. Just contract with the Sheriff's office. Why does such a small town even need a police force?
18% diversity. . .
@@MadFox-jr6byhaha. What do you mean by diversity? Women as well as men? Old as well as children? Oh! You mean POOR people? No. Of course not! You mean B----K people? Oh, but thats not the word you call them? You mean FOREIGNERS? Oh my God! If a town has foreigners there will be crime?
What if the B----K person is in your local nursing home? Oh, Sweet Jesus! Crime will be rampant any day now.
Yep.
Right 530 people small town really doed not need 7 officers.
There's usually some people in town the local politicians don't want prosecuted for dwi etc
That town must be exploding with jobs for the whole team to able to just quit.
They can all go to the next town over and get jobs with the police, every police force is down right now while crime skyrockets.
LOL I wonder what big new industry just opened in that small town....able to employ a whopping 7 people. Crazy.
I look forward to your town, Moscow, exploding.
Ever hear of commuting to jobs? Southern Minneapolis is only a 45 min drive from that town. @@ChrisTopherBunnell
@@MadFox-jr6byEnjoy $5/gal, chump.
This doesn’t just “happen”, let it be a wake up call to the mayor and she should consider not playing the babe in the woods. You lost everyone, including your chief; something was obviously wrong.
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And Now For The Rest of The Story"!!!
That’s over dramatic to say that the entire Minnesota police force has resign. When the fact there is only 7 police officer that has resign.
A small town without a police force?
Sounds like an great opportunity for an experiment to see how much they are needed, in the first place.
Theres lots of towns without police, it doesnt sound like this town needs any regardless.
Just wait until something happens one day and there are no police around. They'll be begging for a police department then.
That’s why they have the second amendment…
That’s why most states with small or no police departments have loose gun laws. Because the citizens have to become the police and basically need to be able to do the job of a police officer without getting arrested themselves.
@@LeeeroyJenkins Right.
Moreover, who wants to sign up to police a civilian population armed with weapons of combat? Would you?
At the very least, they should be compensated, like the Military is, with a sort of "combat" or 'hazardous" pay.
Things like this will only be more common going forward. Cost of living is hitting hard so I can see pay being an issue, I'm sure there are underlying issues too going on with them like a lack of respect from their peers
Ten bucks says they did something about cops bogusing overtime.
If they were 15% behind in pay and you gave them 5% then you fully understand why they left.
Not blindsided... poetic justice. we get what we pay for
Yup you pay for the services you get, cut all taxes, cut all services. Can't count on the state to pay for everything.
Certainly not when no one wants to pay for it. Taxes are what pays for all services. The wealthy don’t care, they just get private guards and gated communities.
Great news story. Way to go NBC. You just gave criminals nationwide a golden ticket to take advantage of this community. Not only did you state the city and state, but also the last day the current police force would be on the job. Mainstream media at its finest. Why would anyone at NBC think that bringing media attention to this story would help this community in any way? Some things need to be worked out quietly within the community. I truly hope this town can retain a reliable police force and the community can remain safe and peaceful.
Lol. Yup
Would you rather we did it Soviet style, where we briefly mention it in the most vague terms possible before immediately brushing it under the rug?
@@olliegorianot at all is what they are saying. Shut up escalater...
Oh I bet the cops who publicized this are counting on making the city that resisted paying them what they wanted, pay.
Do you think there's just going to be a void with no law enforcement? Every time there's one of these "entire department quits" incidents the county takes over jurisdiction temporarily.
So back in the early 90s I worked at a department in a town of 2500 and we had 5 officers including the chief. This town half that size has 7 officers? There’s your problem right there. You only need 4 max.
Apparently it's not a good place to work if your entire police force resigns over low pay. If that happens, you've failed as a Mayor. Also, who was that delusional woman who said they could get by with three? Three what?? Police officers for a community of 1,200 people. Yeah..... No. Good thing there is a Sheriff's department they can subcontract out the policing work to, as a temporary measure.
Here in Florida is is not uncommon for these small towns with very small PD's to contract with the county Sheriff instead. Saves money and in many cases you get a better trained and more professional law enforcement agency.
I live in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, population 2900. We have a city PD consisting of only five LEO's. Can't comprehend why a town of 1200 would need so many offers.
They have even less just 530 people.
if you want coverage 24/7 their is a minimum number of people you need to at least have one person on duty all the time. even if you just do back of the had math you will need at least 5 people to cover the week (assuming a 40 hour work week) not counting vacations sick day etc., so my guess is to be practical 7 is about the minimum you need for a functioning town no matter what the size.
@@paxundpeace9970stop lying. The population of that town is 1,200 (not 530). The average small town in America has 3 officers per 1,000 residents, not including the police chief. 6 officers, plus a chief, for 1,200 people is not that uncommon.
It's an hour from Minneapolis
@@paxundpeace9970it's closer to 1300 lol not sure where 530 came from. I live 6 miles down the road from Goodhue
“The Fleecing of America” continues…
A homeless person in San Francisco make more money than these Police officers! That is shame. Best of to be homeless to move to San Francisco these days.
This needs to happen in every city, town or whatever. Let the People take care of themselves for a while.
In an uncivilized country like US,that will have tragic consequences.
And at a time when criminals are in charge and running free, don't think that would work. Police Departments are there for a reason.!!
@@gew9487 It works great this way when you defend yourself you don't go to jail
Liberals would love this for a while untill they need em haha.
I do know if most people had and used armed protection that alone would help with crime.
Also if they have the money they could hire a private police department.
Too many people act like you need public stuff for protection like a police department though police can be privatized.
It was nice to the name Jennifer Hoff be the reporter. She was an excellent anchor at KOIN 6 in Portland.
They didn’t interview any of the police officers, they aren’t saying something and aren’t showing the numbers.
A police force does not resign without previous conversation.
The mayor should have been aware.
Bye Felicia
"Who could imagine...
That they could freak out...
in Minnesota.."
RIP Frank
Dad, is that you?!? 😲😂
For 530 people, really? Kind of hard to see the logic in wasting money on a police force. What happened to the Sheriffs?
The mayor was not blindsided. She fully knew it was a possibility.
Imagine asking to get paid more for a job that you cant even do correctly and on top of that the lady said it was a quiet town so why are they asking for more money just to sit in a car doing nothing. These guys are the true definition of pigs
I spent most of my life in Manitoba short haul truck driving into Minnesota, when I first started going I was shocked by how poor the state is. Minimum wage was something like 5.50 an hour back then and I think its still sub 9 dollars. I'm not surprised they cant pay their police force anything close to the national average, there is no one to collect taxes from... If a local Minnesota resident wants to weigh in that would be great because I honestly don't understand how the richest nation on earth has such an impoverished state smack in the middle of one of the largest trade networks in north america.
hidden third world in the u.s. from what i have seen in person and anecdotally. richest does not really mean for everyone sadly. 7 does seem like a high number of officers but if they were merged into that larger force (if close enough to serve) it would make sense. 3 officers would not really work as someone mentioned above so 7 feels closer to what you need to run things BUT a small town does not have the tax base to support proper staffing. I wonder if this town has a lot of through traffic to other places. Unfortunately for the officers, the town probably called their bluff and will get supported elsewhere with mixed results so that no one will really win.
It’s not just that they’re not paying their force anywhere close to the national average, they’re not paying their force anywhere close to the local average.
It's due to poor policies. Look anywhere that "those in control" run (big cities and whole States) and you can see the effects of sheer stupidity.
They were making $22hr to write speeding tickets and yell at farmers who left mud on the roads. I live 6 minutes away
The population of Minnesota is 3 times the sum of Saskatchewan and Manitoba's, yet it's size is about 1/6 of Saskatchewan. It's anything but small
We have a lot of Military Veterans who would love to have theirs jobs if need be huh?
They don’t want guys who have fought to defend the constitution.
They want lap dogs who in the end operate as security.
It’s marketed differently, but that’s what it ends up being.
Every branch.
So where are they??
They’ve run recruiting adverts for years. Still don’t see them showing up
@@LeeeroyJenkins Oh I forgot it's Minnesota...one of the colder places in the Universe. My Bad!
It's a service. You don't get paid
That's what happens when you let Karen's run a town
in the meantime, the resigned officers create a little crime spree to make their point. i’ve seen it happen elsewhere.
Where?..details?
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This sounds less like they were upset about their pay, and more like they had something against that mayor.
Why are you surprised? The way they are treated by the people they serve and let the criminals back on the street.
'a "community" city' - this has to be the worst city slogan ever. Putting 'community' in quotes is the icing on the cake. NGMI vibes.
Imagine the mentality of the person who signed that slogan off - with quotes. Frightening.
They've been filing grievances for years now but we have no idea why they would just walk off and quit.
Don't you think it's dangerous to report on a town with no police?
Seeing a 2012 Impala as one of their primary police cruisers is telling that the law enforcement budget is next to nothing.
You can get a early 2020 model of an interceptor for the price of a corolla these days.
We can get by with 3 officers. People are so ignorant of how things work. Three are not enough to cover all the hours needed even if you only had one officer on duty at a time. That would be 58 hours per officer with no time off at all for the whole year.
You must be a union spokes man... good fear mongering should get them to pay more taxes and not ask for accountability
@@erikanders3343 Fear mongering? How would you cover that city with 3 officers? You won't answer because you can't.
I don't think they should, nor did I every say they could. Put down the crack pipe there.
The city is not willing to pay the taxes nessisary to run a department of their own and should let the country sheriff do it. Yes its just another police union, but when they violate peoples rights of have to pay our settlements its the county and the state that is on the hook for it. Live within your means and ' you get the services you pay for' and all that. @@josephpearlman4010
@@erikanders3343 Just wait until something serious happens, even in a small town of 1200 people and see how 3 officers can handle it. You think they work 24/7? You'll be lucky to have only 1 on shift at any given time. Sounds like you hate cops.. sorry they hurt your feelings.
LoL, @@SilencedByCZcams Where are you nutcases getting the idea that I think 3 officers is the answer... seriously put down the clack pipe and look what I wrote.
I think cops should be held to the same standard they were when my father and brother were officers. I think this idea of blind acceptance of abuse's and this Russian view that power means corruption is ok needs to end. Its amazing people like you can be so easily cowed in to submission. You are a worm
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin
The fact that they chose to resign in the same day shows they did not care of the community, at the very least turn in your two week notice like any other employer so the town would not be left alone.
@@jsmith-u5i if you are in the business to protect and serve the community I would not feel right leaving that position from one day to another. Of course childs like you would never see it that way. This shows they obviously did not care about the community
The Sheriffs office and state patrol are covering more hours per week now, than the police did. They were all part timers
You mean like the officers in the George Floyd case who are getting the book thrown at them for simply doing crowd control? No cop in this country believes their city/town has their back anymore.@@martinesquivel5434
A 5% raise during 10% inflation is meaningless.
That means, Madam Mayor, that you are either not in-touch with your Police Force, or you are and you're simply ignoring what you're hearing and are being derelict in your duty to protect your citizens.
Yeah there's no way they were blind sided by this. An entire group of workers don't just up and quit their jobs without going to their employers/boss first to express their grievances. They asked for a pay raise and they didn't deliver. So what did you expect was going to happen?