Oakley has 290 residents. They also have over 100 police, for some reason. Those police are also, more or less entirely anonymous. [More]At first, I was thinking this is some kind of small-town proto-police state going on. Reading more about it, including that the volunteer force is comprised of vetted ccw holders who train several times a year, I'm starting to wonder if what we have here may be a well regulated militia, and the powers that be don't like it one bit.
This one bears watching and learning more about.
[Via Rick N]
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If it is as you suggest, I love it! That's the way it's supposed to be . . . armed Americans adjudicating actual crimes against themselves and their property, not virtually-unaccountable govt. brigands lurking in the brush with the snakes with radar guns, treating the proles like amerikans for countless victimless nonsense "crimes". After all, any allegedly limited authoritah coppers have is, supposedly, granted to them out of OUR full bundle of authority as alleged sovereigns. Ya hang a monopoly-badge on low IQ maroons, and this fact is quickly forgotten. (Not that most duped amerikans ever knew it!)
The problem here is that cops can carry concealed in hospitals and courthouses but doctors and non-prosecuting attorneys can't.
So, well to do guys, mostly doctors and lawyers, make a small donation of $1000 or so to a small town police department and the chief gives them reserve officer badges. Now the department can buy a new squad car and 30 trusted surgeons can carry their guns to work.
Works fine, as long as you're one of the guys who can afford to buy back his constitutionally guaranteed rights by becoming a cop.
The scandal isn't that a few upstanding citizens can walk into a hospital with a concealed weapon, the real scandal is that most upstanding citizens can't.
Here's one of the better articles I could dig up on the Oakley situation.
http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2014/04/everyone_gets_a_christmas_ham.html
It sounds like a bar owner has a beef with the chief, and now intends to sue the city over every possible issue until they fire the chief.
I'll reserve judgment on the original problem between the two, but some of the successive lawsuits make the barkeep look like a vexatious litigant.
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