Apparently the new police chief, hired in 2021, quadrupled the number of cops with cops that were fired from other places. So they've got a dude just building an official bandit camp a couple hours north of Houston, I fucking love America

Here's where I'm pulling it from. I like that it says both that the current size is 5x larger than the largest force at a similar sized town, but the new head pig only quadrupled the force. So it's not a new thing but it's recently gotten drastically worse. Bonus points for the mayor pretending that they didn't know what was going on or that they don't have records for how many cops they have