Another small town in Minnesota considers disbanding its police force
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2022
- Paul Folz is the chief of police for the Spring Grove Police Department -- and is only its only officer. He's planning to retire by the end of the year and the city of 1300 residents is considering disbanding its police force, opting instead to sign a law enforcement contract with the local sheriff's' office. Other small towns across the country are facing similar tough choices.
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I’m glad that at the beginning of the story they pointed out that many industries are having staffing shortages right now. Customer service jobs and any job where you need to be face to face with the public is having trouble recruiting right now (and, of course, police often need to be face-to-face with the public). It’s just harder in general having customer-facing jobs (for instance, being a flight attendant).
Disrespect and blaming law enforcement from the very top in this country is what has caused this. Until that attitude is changed, it's only going to get worse.
😂😂
ok bootlicker
What caused this is tyrants. Lots of small town police stations/sheriff's office do whatever they want because they are buddies with the judge and put whoever they want in jail and in such a small town lots of cops lurk for small tickets and infraction and try to search and detain people who shouldn't have been bothered.
Lmao they had 3 cops in a small town with 1300 calls last year. That’s 5 calls a day
@Rikers Island Democrats Nest so In his small town do you think he is being disrespected by the citizens
A question that needs to be asked is, does the chief have applications out himself? Why would someone want to apply for a position there if they are going to eliminate the positions?
When the perpetrators are made to be the victims, what does one expect to happen?
Exactly!!!! These 🗑 cops are always playing the victim.
@@georgecurious6454 not at all what they were getting at.
@@kickedfromcampaign He’s a little confused, but he has the spirit 😂
very sad because now these people will have to defend themselves
Very sad blacks can't defend themselves against white oppression.
They will have to defend themselves until they take our gun rights away.
Well people do defend themselves
Yes and no. In a lot of super small towns and rural counties sheriff's of that county patrol those small towns that don't have a police department. Same with state troopers.
Ask yourself who benefits from a lack of law and order? The past two years sentiment against law enforcement has gotten out of hand because of politics, money, careers. It has harmed public safety in this country. Leaders and media must work hard to rectify this. The next time you cover law enforcment, think of yourself or a loved one dialing for help and not being able to get it.
They don’t mention how boring that particular little town is. As much as I love small towns, they aren’t for everyone
Big cities aren't for everyone either. If you don't like small towns, don't live there!
Boring? You're ridiculous.
@@Nast405 to many,small towns are boring. To me they represent safety, peace, and solitude among other positives.
It depends on your age and development really, for young people who want excitement and things to do small towns suck ass, for older people who want safety and peace and quiet they aren't that bad.
@@whenindoubtmutemyownmouth5180 very true in many cases.
Say goodbye to the nice town without police...
What’s wrong with people these days. We NEED our police!
School in Texas didn't get help from the police
@@batman5208 Does it look like Texas?
Don’t blame
Police blame criminals
They run the citys
Ask Floyd fam
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@@lc6636 is Texas part of America? Is Minnesota part of America?
It is a small town. What hate are they experiencing over there? Blame the pay they offer. Blame there location of course they can’t find people to hire because you have to be a cop and a EMT and be on call 24/7 like the chief said with just 3 officers. They get 1300 calls a year. That’s like 5 a day
The one thing all these towns have in common. NON OF THE LOCAL POLITICIANS, EVER EVER EVER are willing to cut their own pay to help.
Gotta give this chief credit. He didn’t turn that tiny town into a speed trap to pay for eight cops in a town of 1500.
Making everything an issue of race when it involves a black person and vilifying the police no matter the situation it's no wonder these people are quitting. I'd hate to go to jail for just doing my job exactly by the book because of political pressure
Yes, like the cop in Florida who choked his coworker.
@@batman5208 Does it look like Florida?
@@lc6636 hey, can I do you the same way the cop did his coworker in Florida?
@@lc6636 this is America
@@batman5208 You wouldn't do shit with a name like batman.
Now the criminals know which towns to go rob
As in criminals you're talking about black folks right? Cause that's why most of you folks think of us anyway. And not all are criminals. Smh
@@brandonhardin2609 He didn't mention anything about "black folks". That's the real problem here, just making it about race when no one even brought it up...
@@brandonhardin2609 blacks commit the most petty crimes in this country. Just swallow your pride and accept the facts of your people.
@@vagpounder5614 I don't have pride. Yes blacks, whites, Latinos, Asians and so firth commit crimes. But white folks in the other hand don't like taking the responsibility for the crimes they commit either. You don't like the truth. And when folks tell you about yourselves, you get defensive and want to deflect from the real issues.
@@scelusroblox it don't have to be brought up because most already think of all black folks as being criminals anyway. When not all are.
Imagine being the person called to save someone’s life and put your own life on the line for it, to be labeled by the majority of stupid people as any “ism”, “ist” and what have you.
They should have people decide if they want cops or not and the ones that HATE them can figure out who to call when a REAL problem happens in their life. Imagine getting robbed and you hate the cops and you go…who should I call? Haha. Just let it go man, don’t do anything.
Like teachers... People continue to blame teachers for not having enough resources
Imagine people expecting law-enforcement to be professional and to do their jobs with expert knowledge and social and psychological awareness. The wrong people are police officers and that’s the problem. Law-enforcement is a noble profession and therefore needs the right mindset in the right people in the job. Not everyone is cut out to be an officer just because they get hired as one. There’s no need to make this into right and wrong or black-and-white thinking. There is nuance here and people expect that when you hire a professional, that they act professionally.
Now, adult men who cannot have their way and police in any old way they choose are quitting the profession and throwing temper tantrum‘s and work slow downs. How professional. We are in for a bumpy ride because there is such a large shortage and people will get hurt, but eventually a new generation of law-enforcement will emerge who will be better trained and act like professionals. Thank God. A whole generation of baby boomers and GEN Xers need to die off because they are insular, Stubborn, and untrainable.
@@christinet6336 Big mouth! give the training program a try before you spout off your expertise. Of course there are bad apples in every bunch. Don’t count on any of the participation trophy generation coming up to be any good at policing or any other profession. SMH
Just making excuses and scared of accountability. This is a small town where the chief is also an EMT. This isn’t because they are treated bad in that small town it’s because the young people leave the country and go to the city,college or work
@@christinet6336 maaaan, I'd hate to see your outcome in real life. Millennials and gen Z'ers are some weird thinking humans! I was shopping at a Costco last week, me and the wife were walking and out of the corner of my eye I see this female employee there probably between 18 and 25 years old? dressed like an elf or ferry? Had the whole fit on, pointed ears glitter on the face over tons of makeup, the elf platform shoes, super short hair cut with glitter in it. I can just imagine what the police force and military will be like in 30+years from now. AMERICA as we know it probably won't even exist in 30years. What a sad affair! 😔
Hoppy always had a Side Kick !!
i live in MN near a small town the same size & we haven't had a police department for a few years now. There used to be 2 police officers in town. The Sheriff's department patrols it a few times a day. I think it's the same for all the town's in the county.
Don't tell or the thugs will be come there to fu them up
No police only social workers wow
It's time for open carry law now
Where I live we got it
Those poor social workers are going to be working overtime.
This is crazy! What about the big giant surplus! Give me a break, we need more police, and they need a raise for all this BS!
The U.S. is over policed as is, and no they don't need a raise. They're already overpaid for doing little to no work other than violating the public's constitutional rights and harassing minorities.
This is going to happen all over the country. Our military will be our police. When that happens it will be a military State or States
I can't wait
It's time to start carrying ur weapon
Open carry law
No police give us your guns and deal eith it. I'm good that's why I left never coming back
Why disband? They can just move to Minneapolis. Same result
Oh Poncho..ooh Cisco..
Minnesota is getting exactly what it deserves.
In my area where I live, We don't need police officers. In my view, police officers are just a waste of tax paying dollars.
We don't have any police officers over here. Don't want any. We're lucky if we see 1 police car drive by, maybe 1 police car in 2 weeks time. And that's 1 police car too many. Everytime I see a police car drive by, I say; What a total waste of tax paying dollars. And if I do happen to see a police car stopped some car out there, I ask like what; there's no crime going on anywhere ??? You're this bored, you decided to stop someone for a broken brake light ? Or expired car tags ? Or tinted windows ?
Yes,, DEFUND THE POLICE !
our community has 3 agency city police, county sheriff, tribal police for town of pop 2376 were roughly same as them
Spring Grove, Minnesota close to Iowa boarder
I guess I’ll have to stop being a vigilante and join the police force
ya that's a good idea !!
im sure a lot of people from Chicago will be on the ways soon just like what happened in the cities
Huh?
@@brandonhardin2609 lets say your a criminal that lives in a city full of police and a DA that actually prosecutes the criminals but there is one near by that has no cops and no criminal prosecution where would you live?
spelled out enough for ya? kind of a no brainer
@@danhard8440 but that's the thing I'm not a criminal.
WAIT UNTIL BLACKS MOVE IN..YOURLL BEG FOR THE POLICE TO RETURN. nOW WHA IM SAYING
and you are a racist and need to have consequences.
Most don’t realize that.
Yes, I live in a community with them and they are lovely.. now people that look like us are always getting in trouble.
@@batman5208 were you born into poverty? Hang in there buddy
@@trumpwon8064 So now you bash poor people? That is not so Christian of you Thailand..
If George Floyd had just gotten into the cop car like the officers were begging him, none of this would have happened.
Don't be stupid
@@johnblaws8133
Too late. You've already filled the position.
Yes, the two Caucasian guys in Tennessee and Georgia did not obey and comply and took a few cops out...
@@batman5208 Become a cop or shut your trap?
No George
Floyd fam need it
Millions to stop
Living on public aid
And link card
That evil that millions
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Forest lake, MN .. 2016
was the LAST year for city p.d..
Chisago/Washington County sheriffs office has jurisdiction there since.
SUPER SKETCHY even daytime..
I'm stopped there a few weeks back for the 1st time in a few years. Got gas and hit Target and Walmart. Couldn't believe the obvious change in demographics. It used to be the occasional meth head whites, now it's more diverse than I expected. Saw a dozen or so that looked/acted straight outta North/South MPLS or University Ave Midway/Frogtown
Affordable housing brings in all the good law abiding citizens
@@Tom-cz9op Exactly. Precisely why all POC, when able to, live in white suburbs and gated communities if possible.
Local politician sure don't want police. These would be easy to solve, just make a federal law that forbids populations to become/ stay cities with their own political administrations and collecting their own taxes without having their own 24h/ 7d/ 365d fire and police department with enough people, equipment and installations for the population of that area, say in police around at least 1% of the population should be police officers. For sure police and fire services would become suddenly very popular well paid jobs (with huge marketing by the politicians and their friends)... otherwise someone else would be getting those local taxes and making decisions.
In these case by my made up rule of 1% there should exist around at least 13 police officers working in the city. Damn it in some small countries you can't even have a security company with less than 15 security officers! But in US you can have a police department with just 1 police officer... that is really crazy.
I happen to be the mayor’s daughter of this particular small town. We haven’t eliminated the police in fact we have more people spending more time actually doing the work not just sitting in the office doing nothing all day. This was a really hard decision to make and my dad has been yelled at many times for this decision. There was one person that applied for this job and he was going to leave in one year we made the best decision.
VOTE RED AND GET OUR MUCH NEEDED POLICE OFFICERS BACK!
So your saying to vote for the KKK. Beth Marie wears a bedsheet cus she's a kkkoward.
If you don't that your crime will be unbelievable and you'll want them to come back. That I promise
This town has a population of 1400 people. They have 1 cop, and that's all they need, because they are good people that don't commit crime. Imagine Minneapolis, the complete polar opposite, not needing cops lol! I really wish you defund police people in high population cities would get what you want and deserve. That's the only way you'll learn.
If everyone carried a gun. And we had private policing then we wouldn't have to dance around qualified immunity and corruption if the private Police did that they would fired or criminally charged immediately
Need to pass open carry law
I’m looking for new job we’re I apply
Why do we have to pay so much in taxes and not getting any public service?Our taxes should be lowered and the overcharging last year should be returned.
George Floyd quit smoking 🚬 🚭 good 4 his health
Detectives aware if Minneapolis police is gone, the sirens alert neighbors to evcaute before gangsters and killers into this place a no go zone special.
Nothing new here people...I remember a couple of these reorganizing things that had happened due to lack of Police. So the sheriff office took the slack.
Hawaii Plates NNF 183
You can be guaranteed when the cops go away, crime will increase, what follows the city brings on itself!
That’s a fallacy. Police, through civil asset forfeiture, stole more money from citizens who were never convicted of a crime, (most not even charged) in 2022, than all robberies put together in the entire country.
There’s no greater threat to our Constitution than law enforcement and their culture.
This is what decadence looks like. Denying reality, to believe one’s preconceived notions of the world, in-spite of the observable objective reality that exists.
Minnesota, You get what you ask for ..... Keep that energy when you need help and 911 is busy signal.... Maybe you won't vote democrat next time.
Departments waste more money than anyone. Driving home in a police suv not paying for the gas the money wasted on a cops funeral is a joke. It goes on for days. Most cops get paid over &200.000 a year not to mention overtime.
Where? Spring Grove?
then wont the man of sin be revealed soon?
Good Ole Mrsesota! Where the MEN are treated like dogs!!😂😂😂
Disband the police? Enjoy that.
Is this the great falling away?
Safe because of police.
If we can’t hold our police to a higher standard then yes I support closing them down, this story doesn’t give the details but there is A police problem but it’s not cuz there’s too few lol.
To the ppl who love and support cops no matter what - it’s not that we r bad ppl, u just don’t understand why we feel this way, u ppl have never seen/ delt with police brutality big or small.
Besides u ppl think exactly like the cops do.
Democrats said flood the streets with social workers.
Mora and Pine City need to make a lot of changes. We just need to get new police that follow the rules.
What's wrong with the coppers there?
@@Tom-cz9op Racist ,mean , don’t go by the book , make up lies ,arrest the wrong people , Put you in a chair handcuffed and still get taxed............
We need private Police then if they fuck up and violate our rights they would get fired immediately. There would be no qualified immunity to dance around and allow cops to kill people, rape, and rob people and then just move departments. Cops are the lowest IQ people in society they won't hire them if they score to high on the test.
@@Tom-cz9op I heard pine county coppers get kinda bored up there and get themselves into trouble...lol
@@KMaN5150 perhaps more diversity would relieve that problem 🤔
All these tiny departments need to look turning the issue to the county who can offer better benefits and training
I still do not understand why 5 minus k towns do need own police department for the area. All they do is sit on incorpoprated highways doing the state police or county jobs, just to get revenue from speeders (and I do condone speeders and drunks drivers)) ,but mostly it is everyone you know and use your authority upon.
When the last time a Cop stopped a violent crime.?
1967?
They serve themselves not the public.
Never in history of the police have they actually stopped a crime before it happened. They've always been corrupt. They are scum. I would love to say there are some good cops out there but no. Those few good ones are watching the bad ones operate and doing nothing. That's worse.
They stopped George Floyd
One Good Wyatt Earp .
Buffert from walking tall.
Lol . surprised.
Your kingdom is FALLEN
Exactly what happens when bad cops are not weeded out. Law enforcement did it to themselves. Clean it uo
Sweet. They hate cameras because they tell the real story.
Modern day slaves
What? You going to have a complaint window kiosk instead of a police department?
policing by the sheriff's department at the county level is just one step closer to the federal government policing communities. Furthermore worse yet would be civilians policing without proper training. That being said it's not an uncommon belief that even the current police departments are at minimum level of training which would mean that civilians should just become police officers with the amount of training necessary to police neighborhoods. I think most importantly Missouri has it right where they don't allow state officers to assist in investigations from federal officers
My little sister found out what it's like to date somebody related to a judge and accounting clerk, she was kidnapped when she was 13 and taking across two state lines of molested by two men grossly. Now they couldn't press charges against their own people so he got to get away with it until 15 years later and a bunch of dead girls were found lying around hacked up dead. Well, that's when the feds got in and they couldn't do anything to help him. That's just what happens when law is conducted with criminals. It's a red flag thing, if it happens you get rid of the trash, you don't keep it and try to learn to make money with it. You go to hell for that
I'll bet he knows where the liquor stores are.
I'm sure you need way more cops to police the 1300 ruffians that live there. What if someone jaywalks the town street?
Cry babies
This is what happens when accountability arrives.
no, this is what happens when you idolize criminals.
Do you think so.... Low I.Q.
George Floyd was a good man.
George Floyd was a piece of shittt but by blaaak standards, he's a hero.
Yes he left his
Fam millions
And town destroy
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Only after the nine minutes had gone
Hahahaha he was a violent criminal. Still not a reason for cops to do that but he was OD'ing on drugs as well there is just so many factors not spoke of. Even more reason to have private policing then those coos would immediately be charged with crimes and prosecuted no qualified immunity. The cops lawyers and judges are all corrupt working together.
Then why were the cops after him?