With a population of less than 500 people, Florence has 7 or 8 police officers who use US Highways 50 and 77 soley to make money for the city at the expense of travellers through the state. The majority of the time an officer will be sitting beside a building with a lot of junk outside, alongside US Highway 77 catching cars coming over a hill as they come into town. Quite often there is a second police officer sitting at the other end of the town alongside US Highway 50 beside what appears to be an old broken down closed service station.