"Texas town with 50 cops for 250 people just disbanded its entire police force"
Coffee City in Texas disbanded its entire police force this week.
An investigation found that at least a dozen officers had once faced criminal charges.
Even the police chief had a DUI charge he never reported.
Residents of a small Texas town that is famous mostly for a robust speed trap operation are worried after the city council disbanded the entire police force.
The mass firing came after an investigation by KHOU, a Houston-based CBS affiliate, which found that the Coffee City Police Department was employing 50 police officers, many with questionable backgrounds, to police the town of just 250 residents."
"The force brought in more than $1 million in court fees from more than 5,100 traffic citations last year, which is the most citations for any town in Texas the size of Coffee City, the report says.
According to the outlet, the city's now-fired police chief, John Jay Portillo, who was hired in 2021, quadrupled the size of the police department in a span of just two years.
And a lot of those officers had troubled pasts."
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"Texas town with 50 cops for 250 people just disbanded its entire police force"
Coffee City in Texas disbanded its entire police force this week.
An investigation found that at least a dozen officers had once faced criminal charges.
Even the police chief had a DUI charge he never reported.
Residents of a small Texas town that is famous mostly for a robust speed
trap operation are worried after the city council disbanded the entire police force.
The mass firing came after an investigation by KHOU, a Houston-based CBS affiliate, which found that the Coffee City Police Department was
employing 50 police officers, many with questionable backgrounds, to
police the town of just 250 residents."
"The force brought in more than $1 million in court fees from more than
5,100 traffic citations last year, which is the most citations for any
town in Texas the size of Coffee City, the report says.
According to the outlet, the city's now-fired police chief, John Jay Portillo, who was hired in 2021, quadrupled the size of the police
department in a span of just two years.
And a lot of those officers had troubled pasts."
[snip]
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/texas-town-with-50-cops-for-250-people-just-disbanded-its-entire-police-force/ar-AA1gMKId?cvid=6f81c3ceedb642be83efc702477959b0&ei=16
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