Funny huh?
See here's what you don't understand.
When small cities and towns loose their Police Departments/Marshals Office whatever, then the County Sheriff or County Police have to pick up that responsibilty.
The Sheriff doesn't get extra deputies to do that. The Sheriff doesn't get extra money in his budget to do that. What the Sheriff gets is the responsibilty that used to be that of the City Police (with the exculsion of enforcement of city ordinances in my jurisdiction unless the SO is contracted by the municipality). The calls that used to be answered by the City now are routed to the County and increase the call volume and time spent by units responding to these calls.
When call volume goes up the amount of pro-active patrol goes down. Traffic enforcement goes down, availability of officers to respond to a call in a timely matter goes down and that response time is longer.
When call volume goes up arrest rates go up. When arrest rates go up then jail populations go up costing the the tax payer. People who used to be issued little municipal citations get arrested because the Sheriff doesn't enforce ordinances.
When arrest rates and jail populations go up, then the court traffic goes up straining the state courts. There is no longer a muni court because muni ordinances aren't enforced by the sheriff, State Statutes are. When Court traffic goes up it requires more Deputies to transport, guard and escort prisoners and act as baliff's and court security. If these Deputies are pulled from the road or the jail then those divisions have to pay other deputies over time to maintain a safe man power level in their respective areas.
It effects the SO in that the time used to serve warrants and civil summons is curtailed by call volume. Which in turn pisses off victims, attorney's, judges and court clerks who complain to the sheriff who authorizes more OT which pisses off the the County Commission.
The city who decided to save revenue by cutting their department as effectively cost everyone in the County more money, and then they realize that they've lost more revenue by losing the money garnered by enforcement of municipal ordinances and cry to the sheriff and the then the circuit court to make the SO enforce their ordinances.
Oh it's a little town there can't be that many calls. That doesn't matter they still have to be responded to...even the cat crappin in the nieghbors yard.
And if something bad does happen the closest deputies may be 30 minutes away. Might be nice to have some protection.
So the loss of two officers is far reaching especially in rural counties. You might wanna step outta suburbia once in a while junior before you start with LOL BS.
