I feel qualified to answer this, as I drove through New Rome every day, on my way to and from work.
They had approx 4 cops. Half of the force, mayor and council were related. Two cops were brothers (twins... tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum). They worked 7 days a week (maybe not Sun, don't remember), sitting on both sides of Broad St/Rt 40 (National Road), a 4-lane, major street that runs east-west from one end of Columbus to the other. (In fact it runs from one end of America to the other). They would set up one cop car for east bound traffic, and one car for west bound traffic. The speed limit on Broad street is 45mph for miles in either direction, but for 2 blocks of New Rome, it is 35mph. They usually had one car pulled over at any one time. You couldn't hope to go to court and get it dismissed, because the cops were only 2 blocks away, at most, and they would just call them on theradio. I would occassionally press my luck and flip them off. They had an election a couple years ago, with 63 (I think residents) and 80 registered voters. (No, that's not a typo). The guy running against the incumbant mayor was running on the sole platform of dissolving the village. When he won, the council refused to convene and certify the results. Took several court orders. The guys first act as mayor was to dissolve the police force and put padlocks on the police station doors, and hire the Franklin Co Sheriff for police service.
Read some stories about the encounters with police here...
My wife worked with this guy.
They came into his work office to arrest him on a warrant for failure to appear, or something, based on some traffic citation. Took him off in cuffs.
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