Utah town left without a police department
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2025
- A Utah town has been left without a police department after the chief, the only employee, resigned.
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If a town or city has no police then they come under the jurisdiction of the county sheriff's dept.
Every county everywhere in the USA has a sheriff's dept. This is nothing new.
This is no beg deal.
Except this town is between 2 interstate system, and the middle of almost nowhere. Be far and few patrols
@@tommysimmons5266 for patrols just set up your own neighborhood watch.
From 1990- 2021, our town population grew from 1604- 8035 residents. We depend on & get great service of county sheriff. We are 13 miles from Des Moines IA. (Population 559K - 2022) In DM there are gangs, murders, robbery, etc so altho not the size of LA or Chicago, crime is here too.
It's a big deal if someone gets robbed/killed or the town bank gets robbed. You can't play it down too much.
@@autobug2 I imagine a bank robbery would be feds jurisdiction anyway.
he didn't know they were gone... but now he doesn't feel safe. 😂
Probably the safest place on earth.
They aren't the only town in Utah without a police department
That would be unincorporated town’s without police/fire department, all across America. Seen a lot of those 3 years ago on my 1500 mile bicycle tour ride.
Nope they're not. Quite a few towns down have one and the Sheriff's department has to step in
Lol.. There's Moroni, too... Bob Hill you should go work there
Yep...Ogden and SLC
The town is now the safest town in the US!
Keep thinking that research it crime up 81 percent with no police
So, what? Stockton is a small town. Let them use the Tooele County Sheriff's Office.
Sounds more like they should have a contract with the Sheriff's Department anyways.
This is dumb. There are a lot of Utah towns that don't have police depts. Do your homework.
6 min... still faster response time than any dep in CA
Finally a safe place for citizens.
Thanks for letting the criminals know. Lol
Better rethink that, all the gun owners are wishing people are dumb enough. It's not like they can call the cops after you unload into the idiot.
If I was a criminal I wouldn't dare, no cops means vigilant neighbors.
@@silveriogarcia2431 That's a great observation. Anyone who thinks they're going into a small western town and treating it like the homeless treat retailers in San Francisco, would be in for a huge surprise.
Nothing happens there. Don't even need cops.
@@thelake448 Fair to say I'm glad you aren't living there.
The only free town in America 💯
I doubt Utah has a problem with policing themselves. Gun ownership /capability is a responsibility, source of pride and privilege
0:01 - it's Stockton
0:05 - police chief who was only police resigned.
0:13 - now doing 2 fill void.
0:40 - when mayor was in office in Jan. there were two police. One p/t n one who resigned.
0:58 - mayor said they hav agreement w/Tooele county if they hav any calls. Negotiations w/the Tooele County Sheriff's office n workin w/Tooele county council 2 keep their services 2 patrol p/t.
1:19 - Tooele county sheriff's office is 3.6 miles from Stockton.
1:21 - any worries about othr dept. patrolling town of about 700? Mayor said no, n the sheriff is gonna b on call already n response time would b close 2 the same.
No more speed traps if your passing through 👍
The county I live in here in Nebraska has several towns with no police. The county fills the void, been this way for several years now.
Nah.
I don't see why a town of 700 people needs its own police force it should be a county issue
When that fool at the end said "now I don't feel safe" lol 😂
With such a well spoken, articulate and intelligent mayor, I'm sure everything's going to be A-OK!
All he did was issue speeding tickets anyway. He also claims to be a federal marshall I have no clue why because he isn't.
Sounds like they don’t need their own police dept. Just have Sheriff or SP cover the area, or form a regional police dept with several other depts.
Not the police, need peace officers you know that keep the peace for all people equally .
City police departments are a waste of money! Sheriff's departments can easily do the job for less money and more efficiently! The whole state, even all the states need to wake up to these facts! We also don't need the unconstitutional FBI and CIA if Sheriff's departments were allowed to do their job!
They still have the sheriff department
This is why we have the SO. Sheriff's handle law enforcement in most communities that do not have local police. In some cases, the community handles things themselves and looks after each other. I live in one of those places and I am grateful for it.
Citizens are hopefully helping their town out by doing some 'patrols' at night, and past the bank during business hours. It helps everybody.
It’s rough being a small town now days
Seems to me a town that small should just partner with county sheriffs full time and put the money it’ll save into the town. Local police is generally more expensive than the sheriffs office in smaller areas unlike big cities because it’s a bigger chunk of the town’s budgets to pay the officer’s salary than it is to pay the taxes to the sheriffs office in a town that small.
At least that’s what I’ve seen /heard stated multiple times over the years. I’d be curious to see if that’s true here? What will contracting the sheriffs cost Vs the full time and part time local police plus their equipment and vehicles all of which sheriffs office already has a cheaper cost on dealing in bulk
Don’t give up your small town police. Govern thyself
They all sound like alcoholics , no trouble there
To the guy who chose to tell people they need a police officer on interview why doesn't he apply for the job
Look out for the sheriff.
It's usually that a sheriff leaves because there are problems with himself and the mayor
Should have said why he left.
They got more patrol cars than they do cops
Y’all need to chill out they still have Tooele PD which is a short drive from Stockton. Y’all out here acting like there’s no cops when they’re is. 😂
I'm sorry I watched this. It's just not professionally done.
Guys utah has 100 police offices. Every little city has its own police force. They do this to get more money from feds. It's not a big deal their is 5 police offices near by lol.
Mayors fault
Nah
Im movn
If I were you I would tie down everything that’s not glued or made out of cardboard
Surprised he quit. Was making $90K in 2020.
I’ll do it, pay me a decent salary and I’ll head out there now.
Officer Edgar police
Travis Romney! Lol! Yep that's justice alright.
In other news, Stockton UT is now a significantly safer place to live for minorities
Lol. There aren't many (if any) minorities in Stockton.
Wish I could do it.
Population 7,000 in my town. Got rid of our 3 man police department about 5 years ago when we were at a population of 5,000 (growing pretty fast). No one in this town needs them back. We had a guy walk into our only grocery store with his mothers severed head in a bag on mother's day, was tackle by the residents, one store clerk got stabbed, full recovery and back to work in three weeks, county cops were called to haul the guy away (look up "Severed Head in Estacada OR". It made national news)... And we still don't need an unnecessary cop shop draining our economy.
Crime has gone down since the cops were booted.
So smoking bad guys are a thing now?
Billion dollar prison. Stockton Cop free. About to be like Robocop... 🤔
Yes we all need our officers in every TOWN, STATE, THIS IDEA OF DEFUND THE POLICE AND NOT HAVE ANY IS A NIGHTMARE FOR ALL CITIZENS...
woldwest
Who is manning this sinking ship?
Lucky the place is too cold for homeless, that place is juicy crime spree place. Gonna be more news about this town🤣
Maybe Biden could stop by .he was a police officer, truck driver astronaut . Sheep heard er . Doctor. Soldier. Bus driver. Er a president . Come on man.
The mayor should consider hiring some young people who have some military experience who have a passion to become police officers and train them.
Any veteran with honor that respe'ts their oath would never become a redcoat traitor like a pig
@@betohatch8203 ............so you're an EX-CON vet. I see.....
@@autobug2 you don't have to be a criminal to hate police
True
lemmie guess, no black people in that town?
thought so
Where's Batman when you need him.
norco, mira loma and eastvale here in cali have no police station .. we got the jurupa valley sheriffs
For Stockton, Utah, they should have at least 6 full time police officers on the streets.
Theres only 20 people in the whole town🤣 jk. But its small
There is around 644 persons... so 6 full time police officers (1%) seems the minimum to keep the area safer. Probably should be more like 16 full time police officers, but it would be too much expensive I guess.
Need 2 Andy and Barney.
Utah drama
Shocking that a Utah news station would report on local Utah news
Mormons lives matter👃👃👃
It shouldn't be advertised junkies and thieves will go break in and rob people ect.
So sad
I'm a hardened criminal from the central valley of California. Headed your way to take that jurb, or take your thangs.
Really you don't say 🤔.... well how much would you pay I would be police if you pay more than $150,000 thousand dollars a year 🤔with a house and a patrol car for everything use and all medical benefits payed by the city 🤔 ...
Cops are people we pay to abuse and punish us 😂 not to mention drain your wallet… they will be better off than the rest of us ❤😂
So u right
Hows Uvalde ? *_PIG_* still there
Conservatives be like “why should I pay taxes so my neighbor can have police and firemen and teachers and roads and services?”