The Goodhue City Council held a meeting on Monday to discuss options for police coverage following the entire department's resignation.

The Goodhue Police Department resigned due to issues with the city’s pay, Mayor Ellen Anderson Buck said at a city council meeting Monday.

  • SeaJ
    22•11 months ago

    Contract out with the county. A city of 1000 does not need a full time officer let alone two full time ones and five part time officers.

      • SeaJ
        11•11 months ago

        True but again, they can easily contract out with the county. It is a fairly sparsely populated county and according to policescorecard.org, they have 2.3 officers per 1000 people which is better than 73% of departments.

        The town I grew up in has about 2500 people and has not had a police department since the 90s. The last Republican candidate for governor here in Washington was police chief of a town of 1000 people and the town decided it made no sense to even have a department so they ended it while he ran which he did not expect. Both towns are still doing perfectly fine.

      • @jhulten
        9•11 months ago

        2 officers can’t work 24/7. Three shifts of 4x10 (for overlap) is six people per cop on the street.