The message from the police is “fuck you if I don’t get my way” as the authoritarian budget is finally becoming unsustainable and requires cuts. They quit in protest, thinking the spike in crime from their absence will stoke public outcry to reinstate the original budget. When this won’t work as they imagined, as a town of just 1000 is actually rather uneventful, they will perpetrate the crimes they believe they are needed for, like theft and vandalism.

From that message, you’ve decided

• they’re being petulant
• they will commit crimes if no one else does
• they’re being greedy

Either way, quitting a public safety job en masse in protest is telling the community that they can go fuck themselves.

You’re leveraging a lot that just isn’t there. Are you sure this isn’t your own assumptions based on that one dick you wrote you up for speeding when there was no one on the road and you were in a hurry?

Are cops the only emergency workers who don’t get to quit if the pay isn’t there; who don’t get to quit as a group because they don’t want to be around to train whoever the city can scare up to work for even less?

Because if you hate cops now, consider who takes the role for even less money.

The only thing worse than a cheap cop - who at least maybe went to some kind of training - is vigilantes.

Good luck with your election today.