The police will protect you
Well, unless they resign. The Tennessean:
Officials work to calm fears after police force quits
Officials here are working to rebuild a police department and a degree of public confidence in the wake of the recent resignation of the town’s entire police force.
Police Chief Jim Baker and both of Alexandria’s full-time officers left the city at the ends of their shifts on the night of Aug. 23.
Town officials said the force quit over a controversial proposal to save taxpayer money by limiting police activity in Alexandria to the nighttime hours. That idea has since been scrapped, Mayor David Cripps said.
But the possibility of days without police officers, as well as the media attention the police resignations received locally, rattled several residents and business owners in the tiny DeKalb County town.
