The police chief and three officers that make up the entire four-person police department of the town of Geary, Oklahoma, and two of the town’s city council members have resigned with little explanation.

Former Police Chief Alicia Ford did not address the specific reasons for the Thursday resignations, but wrote in a social media post that the decision was difficult.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
    69·
    21 days ago

    “It is with great sadness that I and the rest of the Geary police officers will no longer be serving this community,” Ford wrote, “but it was the right decision for me and the other officers.”

    Ford, without elaboration, encouraged residents of the town of nearly 1,000 about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of Oklahoma City to become acquainted with the city council “and to be as involved as possible in the city, especially attending the city council meetings.”

    The message from the police is “fuck you if I don’t get my way” as the authoritarian budget is finally becoming unsustainable and requires cuts. They quit in protest, thinking the spike in crime from their absence will stoke public outcry to reinstate the original budget. When this won’t work as they imagined, as a town of just 1000 is actually rather uneventful, they will perpetrate the crimes they believe they are needed for, like theft and vandalism.

    Either way, quitting a public safety job en masse in protest is telling the community that they can go fuck themselves. They even told others who to pout to because the police tantrum isn’t working. Lazy, callous authoritarians.

    • pdxfed@lemmy.world
      91·
      21 days ago

      I could see this becoming normal as the often corrupt, violent and authoritarian police unions are attempted to be held to account or reshaped; curious what state law and/or their CBA will say about this…Reagan and Republicans would want to break this wild, liberal union cash grab…right guys? Just like Biden broke the rail strike?

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      20 days ago

      My camp is in a town of 900 souls, and most of them are in the outlying land, not the city center. What cops?! We don’t have one. And they’re hardly needed, we take care of ourselves.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      18 days ago

      The message from the police is “fuck you if I don’t get my way” as the authoritarian budget is finally becoming unsustainable and requires cuts. They quit in protest, thinking the spike in crime from their absence will stoke public outcry to reinstate the original budget. When this won’t work as they imagined, as a town of just 1000 is actually rather uneventful, they will perpetrate the crimes they believe they are needed for, like theft and vandalism.

      From that message, you’ve decided

      • they’re being petulant
      • they will commit crimes if no one else does
      • they’re being greedy

      Either way, quitting a public safety job en masse in protest is telling the community that they can go fuck themselves.

      You’re leveraging a lot that just isn’t there. Are you sure this isn’t your own assumptions based on that one dick you wrote you up for speeding when there was no one on the road and you were in a hurry?

      Are cops the only emergency workers who don’t get to quit if the pay isn’t there; who don’t get to quit as a group because they don’t want to be around to train whoever the city can scare up to work for even less?

      Because if you hate cops now, consider who takes the role for even less money.

      The only thing worse than a cheap cop - who at least maybe went to some kind of training - is vigilantes.

      Good luck with your election today.