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Oklahoma Town's Police Department Quits
The 1,000 residents of the town of Geary, about 50 miles northwest of Oklahoma City are left wondering who to call in an emergency following the resignation of the town's entire four-person police department and two city council members.
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... Neither the officers nor the council members gave any explanation for their resignations. Former Police Chief Alicia Ford did not provide specific reasons for the Thursday resignations, but said in a social media post that the decision was difficult. ... "It is with great sadness that I and the rest of the Geary police officers will no longer be serving this community," she wrote, "but it was the right decision for me and the other officers," according to local media reports. "We don't have much of a city anymore," resident Sonja Luquette told Oklahoma City TV-station KOCO-TV. "Ever since I've lived here it's been one drama after another and it worries me for this town like we should be building up, not falling down," she continued. "I'm not happy by any means," an anonymous resident told Fox affiliate KOKH-TV." A city without its police force is a danger to the citizens of the town." ...
Former Police Chief Alicia Ford did not provide specific reasons for the Thursday resignations, but said in a social media post that the decision was difficult. ...
"It is with great sadness that I and the rest of the Geary police officers will no longer be serving this community," she wrote, "but it was the right decision for me and the other officers," according to local media reports.
"We don't have much of a city anymore," resident Sonja Luquette told Oklahoma City TV-station KOCO-TV. "Ever since I've lived here it's been one drama after another and it worries me for this town like we should be building up, not falling down," she continued.
"I'm not happy by any means," an anonymous resident told Fox affiliate KOKH-TV." A city without its police force is a danger to the citizens of the town." ...
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-07 12:14 AM | Reply
This happens more than people think.
What some of these small towns spend on maintaining law enforcement is insane.
They can just give that money to the county and pay them to patrol their town.
#2 | Posted by eberly at 2024-11-07 08:59 AM | Reply
They had more police officers than medical providers. 1:4 seems like a high ratio. Agree with Eberly that small towns should just contract with their sheriff.
#3 | Posted by mattm at 2024-11-07 11:51 AM | Reply
The view from Okiehomie: this was done so as to make the town safer. See, with no police there can be no crime, so to stop crime we simply get rid of the police. As our Governor Brownshoes Stitt pointed out, more guns makes Oklahoma a more polite place (yes, he said that). It will probably come out that everyone was sleeping with each other, everyone got jealous, and the city council decided to de-fund the police department, so what was the point in all of this? Believe me, this is what Joklahoma is like. Every damn day...
#4 | Posted by catdog at 2024-11-07 01:07 PM | Reply
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