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.
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.
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.
Is that even an incorporated city? Sounds like it relies on county sheriffs, which is typical for places like that.
Good question! Unincorporated.
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?