Michigan village of pop. 290 has secret 100-member police force, under investigation - Polidicks

[quote]The tiny village of Oakley, Michigan looks fairly unremarkable as you drive through it. Located along the M-52 highway, it consists of little more than a single traffic light, with a bar on one side and a gas station on the other. It’s a village of secrets, however, or so it would seem. Oakley has 290 residents. They also have over 100 police, for some reason. Those police are also, more or less entirely anonymous. Who those police are or what they are doing is a mystery, even to the village trustees, who say they don’t even have a proper list of their own of who all these people are, though they have been assured by the police chief that many of them have never even been to Oakley, and likely never will. So what’s the game underpinning all this? There’ve been a series of lawsuits in recent years aiming to find out exactly that, leading the village to shut the police force down last month. Here’s where it gets crazy. The village council shut the police down for not having any insurance, because they’re constantly getting sued. Days later, the police showed up again, announcing they’d bought their own insurance and didn’t need the village’s permission to continue to operate. They fund themselves through secret donations from secret benefactors. Weird, right? Last week, after village council members filed a lawsuit, a judge finally ordered the police to shut down again. Days later, the council voted to finally respond to years of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and release the names of all those secret police. The list has yet to be released, and the council itself is waiting on the police chief to do that, since they don’t have any complete lists. Today, letters showed up at the doors of the council members’ houses, on the letterhead of a high profile Detroit lawyer. The letters demanded that they recind the decision and stop the release of the FOIA documents, insisting that the police had been promised anonymity, and claiming that ISIS, yes that ISIS, was a potential threat to the police if their names were made public.[/quote] [url=http://antiwar.com/blog/2014/10/17/isis-cited-as-michigan-villages-police-push-for-secrecy/]AntiWar[/url] [url=http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2014/10/email_sent_by_detroit_attorney.html]mLive[/url] [url=http://www.minbcnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=1109809#.VEPrmPnF98E]MINBC[/url]

this is just too fucking weird and way too sketchy. who is controlling them? are they even on government payroll? what the hell is going on?

[quote]Today, letters showed up at the doors of the council members’ houses, on the letterhead of a high profile Detroit lawyer. The letters demanded that they recind the decision and stop the release of the FOIA documents, insisting that the police had been promised anonymity, and claiming that ISIS, yes that ISIS, was a potential threat to the police if their names were made public.[/quote] This is just silly. Why drag ISIS as being potential threats into it? Reminds me of that woman who claimed that she was being on the lookout for ISIS members when she was just stealing stuff from cars.

This sounds like something from a Twilight Zone episode.

I would say this is somehow militia related.

For the greater good.

The village contains no more than a single traffic light, but god help you if you decide to run that red light.

So what's with the other 190 people?

[QUOTE=Ricool06;46277584]For the greater good.[/QUOTE] Shut it!

[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;46277572]This is just silly. Why drag ISIS as being potential threats into it? Reminds me of that woman who claimed that she was being on the lookout for ISIS members when she was just stealing stuff from cars.[/QUOTE] ISIS is the trendy scapegoat now. Soon we'll have an article of a child not doing his homework because ISIS ate it.

[QUOTE=Last or First;46277598]The village contains no more than a single traffic light, but god help you if you decide to run that red light.[/QUOTE] There are 70 cops gunning the light at any given time

[QUOTE=Griffster26;46277602]So what's with the other 190 people?[/QUOTE] If you'd read the article, you would know that most of the police don't live in the town. This sounds like some sort of corruption scandal to me. If most of the police aren't even present, and they're being funded by donations, this sounds like some sort of money laundering scheme or something similar.

This is the town, btw: [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/38678023/oakley.png[/img] Literally one traffic light.

Aliens mate, if documentary channels have taught me anything it's that the aliens are colluding with the reptilians, watch yourself, stylish people of Oakley, they is coming to gets ya.

"The Sheriff's Secret Police have issued the following statement: 'There is nothing to worry about. Please do not inquire about the Secret Police. Do not mention the Secret Police. Do not [I]think[/I] about the Secret Police.' This message brought to you by the Oakley Tourism Board".

[QUOTE='[Seed Eater];46277624']This is the town, btw: [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/38678023/oakley.png[/img] Literally one traffic light.[/QUOTE] fucking lucky i wish my town had a traffic light

Turns out they just serve the best bagels in the country there.

[QUOTE=Ricool06;46277584]For the greater good.[/QUOTE] My first thoughts exactly.

Literally the plot of hot fuzz

So that's why I got pulled over so many times while going through the town. I never got a ticket, and their excuse was bullshit along the lines of "you were going 5 over" "it looked like you swerved" but it seemed to me like they were just bored or something. Stopped driving through the town because of this. Very unlikely that they're state paid, Michigan doesn't have the budgeting for something like this, Flint and Detroit are too much of a drain on resources and it usually screws the smaller towns over.

[QUOTE=Ricool06;46277584]For the greater good.[/QUOTE] The greater good.

Why get the government involved? This is clearly the sort of problem that should be solved by a plucky hero from out-of-state.

I think at this point the only people who aren't the secret police are the families of the secret police.

[QUOTE=Tmaxx;46277728]Literally the plot of hot fuzz[/QUOTE] viral advertising for a sequel

[video=youtube;lc7dmu4G8oc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7dmu4G8oc[/video]

[QUOTE=Last or First;46277598]The village contains no more than a single traffic light, but god help you if you decide to run that red light.[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KG7Z5F3pP8[/media]

[QUOTE=Griffster26;46277602]So what's with the other 190 people?[/QUOTE] Who do you think lives in the FEMA camp, sheeple?

Most likely the sheriff making people "reserve officers" so they can conceal carry in pistol free areas.

That sheriff sounds shady as hell. "Nah don't worry, they'll never come and bother us, we cool." I like to imagine he just hired all of his biker friends or something and Hell's Angels are technically the police officers of this town.

[QUOTE=Last or First;46277598]The village contains no more than a single traffic light, but god help you if you decide to run that red light.[/QUOTE] I think it's where the Go Bank from Payday 2 is located.