That something is that criminals in Douglas and Coffee County aren’t being arrested and citizens with knowledge of crimes aren’t coming forward and assisting law enforcement. As of Thursday, Dec. 11, the number of inmates housed in the Coffee County Jail sat at 184 – 148 males and 36 females. Not all of those would be from Coffee County; communities from all over the state – some as far away as Athens-Clarke County – would send their overflow inmates to Coffee County. If some were from outside of Coffee County, then even fewer local criminals had been locked up. At some point, the citizens of Coffee County need to demand that they be protected.