The Goodhue City Council held a meeting on Monday to discuss options for police coverage following the entire department's resignation.

The Goodhue Police Department resigned due to issues with the city’s pay, Mayor Ellen Anderson Buck said at a city council meeting Monday.

  • @CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
    12•1 year ago

    And yet things like volunteer fire departments exist all across the country. These are just entitled cops who feel the world owes them something because they chose this job over another one. Obviously they don’t give a shit about the community they police or they wouldn’t have all quit before talks about pay raises could even occur. I suspect this is a ploy in conjunction with the city council to ‘reform’ the department operations and give huge pay bumps to all the ‘new hires.’

    • mommykink
      22•1 year ago

      Are you implying that police forces should be volunteer units? Holy shit this is the worst case of pure, untreated brain rot I’ve ever encountered. Police need more professionalism and accountability, not less

    • Buelldozer
      17•1 year ago

      Obviously they don’t give a shit about the community they police or they wouldn’t have all quit before talks about pay raises could even occur.

      They resigned and it’s not effective until August 24th, giving the City Council time to either work out pay raises or contract with the County for policing responsibility.

      I suspect this is a ploy

      I suspect that it’s a clear signal from Labor to Management that they’re tired of working for $22 an hour when similar job opportunities are paying $30.

    • BombOmOm
      -5•1 year ago

      You are not entitled to their labor. They may choose to work for free, as many volunteers do, but they are by no means required to work for a pay they don’t agree to.