This is some pretty good shit. The tl;dw goes something like this:
- Weird looking investigative journalist with a Houston, TX teevee station finds out about a small town three hours north of Houston that has 249 residents and
50 COPS on its police force. Journalist decides to do some digging.
- The cops are making a fortune for the small town writing tickets to resident and passers-through alike.
- A disconcertingly high percentage of the 50 cops resigned or were shitcanned from other police agencies based on complaints for excessive force use, criminal activities, etc.
- That includes the chief of police who hired the other cops. Turns out the chief had an active DUI case against him in Florida and failed to mention that on the application he filed with the city for the chief job. He explained that he wrote down "everything that was in [his] mind" at the time he filled out the application.
- The department has a "warrants division" that functions like a collection agency. Almost all warrants division officers live in the Houston area and never set foot in the town where they "work." They're all listed as full-time police department employees, which makes them eligible for lucrative private security moonlighting work.
- Journalist interviews the mayor, who is - or at least claims to be - utterly bereft of clue regarding what's going on in his police department. It was a high-quality beclowning indeed!
- An emergency city council meeting is called. Before the meeting, Chief Drunkiepoo emails his resignation to the mayor and council members. City officials point and laugh at the resignation before shitcanning it. They will not be denied the opportunity of firing this clown.
- City council also disbands the whole city police force. The search for a new chief is under way. None of the cops there when the disbanding happened will work for this town again unless the new chief decides, case-by-case, to rehire them and city council approves each rehire.
- In the meantime, the sheriff's office for the TX county in which the town is locate will handle all the town's law enforcement. City residents are deliriously happy that policing which can most charitably be described as heavy-handed is over.