The small town in Colorado, Green Mountain Falls, just experienced the entirety of the police force quit. The town has experienced a wave of peace, no crime, no violence, in the four days without the force.
The chief of police announced his resignation on Tuesday and he was quickly followed by all the other officers. It has now been 4 days and, remarkably, the town of Green Mountain Falls does not look like a scene out of Mad Max.
“In an election year there’s always some people who choose to stay and some people who choose to go, and I think that happens at every level of government,” Green Mountain Falls Mayor Jane Newberry said.
Despite giving no reason, it is likely that the department disagreed with the local politics and reacted by abandoning their duty as public servants — thereby illustrating the irrelevance of their job in the first place.
Though many would claim that police are there to “protect and to serve”, but as The Free Thought Project writes, “In a perfect world, police would show up prior to a crime and stop it, or at least during a crime, but this is simply not a reality.”
Police in America also do not “protect and serve.” If you doubt this claim simply refer to Warren v. District of Columbia, in which the Supreme Court ruled that the police do not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm.
Source: thefreethoughtproject
