Timmons says he placed a tracker on the police chief’s truck and a surveillance camera on a car wash pointing at city hall where the chief’s office is because the mayor’s signature goes on the chief’s time sheets and he had concerns about them.
“The mayor’s position is not just shaking hands and kissing babies,” Timmons said.
But the mayor says he did not expect officers’ signatures on a bunch of resignation letters and did not expect the entire full-time Milner police department to resign effective Wednesday, Oct. 28.
The mayor wants to and says he’ll be able to keep a police department. In the meantime, the sheriff will patrol.
Milner Police Chief Lamar Bunn says he’s done nothing wrong.
So the cops are fine with surveiling the populace, but when somebody does it to them they’re suddenly all butthurt? What a surprise.
When their boss tracks government property to check his time claims no less.
Bye, you whiny thieving pigs.
What did the police do wrong that caused them to resign?
Sometimes the trash just takes itself out
On one hand, having your boss micromanage the hell out of you and kind of stalk you is insane.
On the other hand, that’s what cops do daily to everyone with ALPR’s. I’m not sure where to put my rage on this one lol. How’s it feel to be treated the way you treat others?
I used to be a delivery driver for a wholesale bakery. The van was rigged to text my boss every time I went over 55MPH. This was years ago. The fact that there isn’t a similar level of surveillance on police is wild
Why are the police upset? Do they have something to hide?
Yes. All of them, obviously.
I mean the resigned before they could he fired, so…
Problem took care of itself.
Restructure and rehire. When one door shuts…
Doesn’t have to be about oppression anymore. Today’s police force is a relic of the lynch mob era. The mob became the police.
To anyone reading this: this user isn’t being hyperbolic. Go listen to the 6-part series on cops by Behind the Bastards
No cops? Time to seize the means of production!
Abolish the police with one easy step!
Seriously, who knew it took this little? A GPS tracker and a camera? JFC, what are we waiting for?!!?!
A mayor with even a single vertebra in their spine when it comes to cops.
Uh oh somebody is upset they can’t commit fraud and steal taxpayer dollars anymore.
The watchers don’t like being watched. The irony.
There is definitely more to this story
Cops love warrantless search until someone has the audacity to use it against them.
Hire new people. The police have too much power, we all know it.
Tracking state property should be the norm, actually?
Principle of least privilege shouldn’t allow the mayor to be privy to that information.
That is NOT fucking least privileged access, don’t make shit up.
Source: work in security for 15+ years. I know bullshit when I smell it.
What part of least privilege has the mayor keeping track of assets?
As an analog to your 15+ years, it would be a manager in your office having access to the inventory of a completely different department
So how do you think a mayor should deal with police lying on their timesheets?
Some random police employee is probably responsible for inventory management. But the police chief is responsible for that employee and the mayor is responsible for the chief. So if the mayor believes that assets are being misused they have a responsibly to try and figure it out or they become culpable to misused assets. The lack of top down process ownership is a problem these days. Responsibility rarely rolls uphill but it should.
Um that’s what an elected mayor should do. Ensure that there isn’t fraud, waste and abuse.
