Sin City

Columbus is in for a heapin' helpin' o' trouble. Here's the situation: I've probably mentioned this before, but Columbus is home to Fort Benning, one of the largest military installations in the entire country. Well, as you might think, the city has a very strong military presence. Most of the people who live here have some sort of connection to the US Army.

Of course, a lot of troops have been dispatched overseas in the last year. Between Afghanisgan, Kuwait, and other military operations, it seems like soldiers are leaving every week. There's also a lot of National Guardsmen (Guardspeople?) in the city, and that's where the problem begins.

It turns out, a lot of the city/county police are also National Guardsmen. When they get shipped out, the police loses officers. That's a problem in and of itself... but it gets better. See, the police department can't hire replacements for all those officers, because they have to guarantee the positions will be open when the National Guardsmen return to Columbus from being on active duty. Basically, we're just going to be short a good chunk of our police department. Nice, huh?