I live on the boundry between two counties in Montana. There seems to be some type of war going on between a police dept and the judges of the county in the next county to where I live . It is so bad that many people who are in the surrounding counties won't even drive through that area unless they are forced to. The police are fighting with the judges and eveyone is angry. Because of where I live the two counties kind of share the responsiblity of policing here. It is causing no end of problems for us. Any suggestions. We who live here are scared that it is going to turn into some kind of turf war between this county and that one. It is very complicated. We are in the middle of it all.
2007-09-26 06:54:54 · 7 answers · asked by Praire Crone 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Sigh... Sgt casy I guess you are the type that if you haven't lived it, you can't understand it......
2007-09-26 07:09:04 · update #1
Sigh..Sgt casey, it is to the point here that when people call no one comes. Some one may die soon. No one cares I guess... it's a poor area....lots of crime and drugs....Who cares?
2007-09-26 17:58:57 · update #2
Ms Crone, We had something similar happen here a few years back. What WE did was to enforce our townships laws ourselves and as for REAL criminal violations we just let the two jurisdictions fight it out amongst themselves. Whenever they would'nt enforce criminal law we simply banded the communtiy together and ran the offenders out of the area. The County sherriff would arrest a guy and the neighboring county's judge would trun them free to harrass our community all over again. so we simply banded together and "helped" them move out of the community. We wopuld be gentle but FIRM about having them leave and no laws got broken BUt the authorities figured out, after a whle that OUR community was NOT going to be a pawn in their petty little political squabbles and we WOULD enforce the law if THEY wouln't. To save face for themselves, they figured out a way to settle their differences, rather than let vigilanteeism take root and REALLY make a mess of things.
BB,
Raji the Green Witch.
2007-09-26 15:27:42 · answer #1 · answered by Raji the Green Witch 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
actual you may no longer do something, the police chief has to submmit any and all delivers as per thier policies. And maximum investment should be approved, ( and furnish request) will could be approved by utilising the city guidance. So of course you will get a city council guy or woman to make a action and bypass a rule to submit one ( or some thing like that) yet a perosn purely "afflated with" a small branch has no longer authority to do something as properly provide it to the supervisor. of course if the lacking of, motives violations in state rules, federal mandates and the such, the officers can sue the branch for no longer providing the needed products as per some federal ruling or the such. Then the court might order the branch to do specific issues, ( it extremely is in many situations how county jails finally end up getting advancements from regulation suites) Then the city or county only has to discover a thank you to pay. and of course working to choose a clean mayor is composed of recommendations additionally.
2016-10-20 01:24:39 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Small towns and large cities have agreements that cover joining jurisdictions. Its up to the agencies to develop these policies. How this effects the average citizen ? It should not. Its not like officers of one county are going to have a shoot-out with the neighboring counties officers at the county line.
Just do the right thing, obey the local laws, you will have nothing to worry about.
2007-09-26 07:37:12 · answer #3 · answered by Robert S 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Musselshell? We've heard of this situation in Billings. From the (limited) info I've heard, there seems to be no easy answer except to let the powers that be fight it out. I know this isn't the solution you would like to hear but it's far beyond the average folks to change. Good luck to you!
2007-09-26 07:01:19 · answer #4 · answered by Steve H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could move out of lame Montana!
Just kidding, Montana's a beautiful state.
2007-09-26 07:03:46 · answer #5 · answered by J E 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
call the governor, the attorney general, the state police chief, and stir things up until they do something. let all the newspapers and tv news shows in the state know about the problem.
2007-09-26 07:00:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why should this be of concern to you? I don't get what ther is for you to fear or what problems this should place on the citizens. Unless, of course you're doing something illegal...
EDIT: My, aren't we a little judgmental...
Oh, and just so you know, I work in small town police, and yes turf wars happen, but the job gets done. So I'm only suggesting that you leave it to them to negotiate, and allow them to do their jobs as best they can under the circumstances. It shouldn't affect you or any other citizen.
2007-09-26 06:58:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋