The City Manager and the Police Chief continue to beat the drum for hiring more police officers. In a story in the Tennessean’s Wilson A.M. section on 9/23/2009 they tried their best to build support for increasing the Mt. Juliet Police Department.
“We are the smallest state per capita police department,” Robertson said. “We don’t have [...]
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September 25, 2009
Why Mt. Juliet still doesn’t need any more police officers
June 29, 2009
Mt. Juliet City Judge resigned via email over the weekend
Story up on The Tennessean website.
There have been a series of disputes between the police department, the City Commission, and the City Judge.
Recently, Judge Grauberger had dismissed citations issued to realtors for violating the new sign ordinance. Apparently the sign ordinance says violators must be given 10 days notice before a citation can be issued. [...]
May 5, 2009
Why Mt. Juliet does not need additional police officers
There have been several newspaper stories over the past few months and a recent editorial in the Mt. Juliet News referred to the “fact” that “the department is woefully undermanned when compared to a nationally recognized recommended average of manpower. “
Problem is, there is no nationally recommended average of manpower.
And comparing the ratio of officers [...]
