> "...just one of the 10 Brookside vehicles is painted with police striping, but nine others bear no emblems..." What I'm struggling with here is that the arti

> "...just one of the 10 Brookside vehicles is painted with police striping, but nine others bear no emblems..." What I'm struggling with here is that the article says they have 8 FTE officers plus additional part-time / volunteer officers... so why do they have so darn many cars? Or to put it another way - my town of 35,000 has 48 FTE positions, 5 of which weren't filled this past year. That's in line with other communities of similar size that I've observed. So it puts the size of this department in perspective - it's a vey large headcount for the size of the community, so it shouldn't be a surprise that they are taking action either out of boredom or because someone is on the take.