From Minnesota to Maine, Ohio to Texas, small towns unable to fill jobs are eliminating their police departments and turning over police work to their county sheriff, a neighboring town or state police.

  • Cylusthevirus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’d probably be a state level entity that offers endorsements to other states. That’s how it is for nurses, anyway. In other news, nurses have more legal hoops to jump through than cops. Someone explain that.

    • ShoeboxKiller
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      1 year ago

      Sometimes even this isn’t enough though. Minnesota requires peace officers to be licensed and to maintain that license with ongoing continuing education. Without steps to strip that license based on conduct then it is essentially toothless.