Town Loses Entire Police Force as Officers Quit Over Cuts, Low Wages, and Safety Concerns
1st August 2018
The police cruiser was sitting at the edge of the car park in front of the town offices, angled towards the road as if an officer inside were waiting to catch speeders.
Only there was no officer inside. Nor, for that matter, was there a Blandford police officer to be found anywhere else on Tuesday. The entire local police force in this western Massachusetts town had just quit and the cruiser was the law enforcement version of a scarecrow.