Jonestown Precinct

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1. Everyone of those police officers can get a better job in another city paying twice as much;
   many of them are getting $20,000 bonuses for moving.
   Cut their pay and they move away.

2. Underpaid plus the risk of going to jail for murder when someone dies in your custody, with triple the median fatal dose of drugs, while waiting for an ambulance. The prosecutor gave a tongue lashing to the coroner who changed his mind. At the best of times who wants to be a cop? Perhaps that’s why most of them are total assholes. No normal person would want the job.

   1. One might look at see in many a first aid manual that the “recovery position” is on your side, but that doesn’t matter when the government wants a scapegoat or 5

3. The residents voted for this. They can enjoy it.

   1. 1300 people in that village. How many police does a village that size need?

4. I’ll bite: What are cops policing a shithole town of 1700 doing with a military vehicle?

   1. I almost posted the same thing…

      Says sheriff on the side. Thinking it belongs to the county and they were just posing in front of it.

   2. Burton, you are right on this. The town has a population of less than 1200 at most recent count. The per capita income is $15,000. It has an area of barely one square mile. It has no industry and no prospects. It has no natural resources. Its likely outcome is to become just another abandoned ghost town of which there are hundreds in Canada and thousands in the United States.

      “”I think we’re all a little bit blindsided by it, but we’re resilient and we’re going to move forward,” said Ellen Anderson, mayor of the small town located in the southeastern part of the state.”

      There’s nothing to move forward to. Of course it can’t afford a police force of any kind. Or any sort of civil services that any typical municipality provides since the start of the 20th century. No group of impoverished taxpayers can make the slightest difference to this situation. The village is done like countless thousands of other villages before it.

5. $22 / hr isn’t enough and they’re driving around in a near tank with bulletproof vests. For a town of under $2000? Something here doesn’t add up.

   1. Homeland Security offers programs that gives police forces those vehicles for almost free

   2. Less than that actually. The town’s population was 2,000 twenty years ago. Today it’s barely 1,000. It has no industry. No natural resources. The railway which created it is gone. It’s now nothing more than a meaningless highway intersection.

6. I thought only one police officer went to prison for killing George Floyd, the article said the third person got 4 years.
   Did I miss something ?
   Running around trying to do the job and you wind up in prison.
   That doesn’t sound right.

   1. The most recent officer got jail for the crime of doing crowd control somewhere in the vicinity of Floyd

      1. Yes, that cop was supposed to have realized Floyd was in distress and intervene, all the while doing crowd control. Basically as JD said, guilty of being in the vicinity. So to be a cop, you are expected to risk your life and at the same time risk a heavy prison sentence if things go sideways.

   2. Four MPD Officers were convicted on both MN State and US Federal Charges. Two rookie officers that sat on George Floyd’s legs are going to be spending many years in jail for murder. One of the rookie officers was on the streets less than a week (I think it was his 3rd! shift).

      Tou Thao was doing crowd control and got over 4 years State and an additional 4 years Federal prison time.

7. Easily fixed, just hire ome social workers
   All good

8. Barney Fife would be adequate.