Police agencies are desperate to hire. But they say few want the job.

[DigitalDrifter]

Obviously fewer people will want a career that has been so demonized by a sizeable portion of the population.

The San Francisco Police Department is down more than 600 officers, almost 30 percent of its allotment. Phoenix needs about 500 more officers to be fully staffed. The D.C. police force is smaller than it has been in 50 years, despite troubling gun violence and carjackings, as officers leave faster than they can be replaced.

Police departments across the country are struggling to fill their ranks, creating what many current and former officials say is a staffing emergency that threatens public safety.

They cite an exodus of veteran officers amid new police accountability measures that followed the 2020 murder of George Floyd, increased hostility from the communities they police, and criminal justice laws that seek to reduce the number of people in jail.

Advocates for police reform see the moment as an opportunity to hire a new generation of officers and reimagine policing. But as agencies seek fresh recruits, they are getting fewer qualified applicants than in past years — leading some to make the risky move of lowering the bar for hiring to fill their ranks.

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[Harpy Eagle]

Teachers will be next as they are being demonized by a sizeable portion of the population.

 

[MarathonMike]

Teachers will be next as they are being demonized by a sizeable portion of the population.

Poor pay and disrespectful, lazy students are the main issues.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Poor pay and disrespectful, lazy students are the main issues.

and half the country is calling them all groomers.

 

[MarathonMike]

Obviously fewer people will want a career that has been so demonized by a sizeable portion of the population.

MSN

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Every medium to large city is having huge difficulty hiring new officers. Partly due to Obama's 8 year war on Police, defining them as a "Systemically Racist Institution". A few racist officers does make does not make the Police systemically racist.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Obviously fewer people will want a career that has been so demonized by a sizeable portion of the population.

MSN

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Hate being held accountable.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Obviously fewer people will want a career that has been so demonized by a sizeable portion of the population.

MSN

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Do your job, and you have a good chance of going to prison.

There are easier ways to make a living.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Hate being held accountable.

I know you do.

 

[Pete7469]

Every medium to large city is having huge difficulty hiring new officers. Partly due to Obama's 8 year war on Police, defining them as a "Systemically Racist Institution". A few racist officers does make does not make the Police systemically racist.

This was a deliberate policy of the regressives long before the meat puppet faggot. It was simply ramped up with a side of racial bullshit to make it sticky.

If you're recall, TMPF discussed the establishment of a Civilian National Security Force. You know the left wants a branch of federal thugs to persecute their enemies which local authorities will be unable to protect people from. Brown Shirts, SS, Stazi, KGB or NKVD, that's what the bed wetters want.

 

[Independentthinker]

Obviously fewer people will want a career that has been so demonized by a sizeable portion of the population.

MSN

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Only an idiot would want the job for a number of reasons:

1.You make the wrong split second decision and you are arrested for murder

2. You risk your life doing your job, only to see the same thugs right back out on the street, putting your life in danger all over again

3. The left incite people to target police for killing

I'm sure there are many others

 

[skye]

Do your job, and you have a good chance of going to prison.

There are easier ways to make a living.

Exactly! ^^

I don't blame them.

 

[initforme]

But but all of a sudden you want public servants? After criticizing public workers for years now you want them? Seriously? All many have done is tell us how terrible they are.

 

[initforme]

The hypocrisy is beyond thick. You got what you wanted. Deal

 

[DigitalDrifter]

There are approximately one million officers working in various police agencies across this country, all running 24/7 365 days a year, encountering thousands of interactions every day. Yet the focus is always on the handful of incidents where a cop makes a mistake, or uses excessive force.

 

[JoeB131]

Every medium to large city is having huge difficulty hiring new officers. Partly due to Obama's 8 year war on Police, defining them as a "Systemically Racist Institution". A few racist officers does make does not make the Police systemically racist.

No, but the willingness of police departments to cover up for racist officers does.

Take George Floyd. It wasn't just that Chauvin put a knee to his neck for nine minutes, it's that three other cops stood around and said nothing when he did it.

When Van Dyke shot Laquan McDonald 16 times, every cop on that scene filed misleading reports that McDonald had lunged at him.

When Amber Guyger shot Jean Botham in his apartment because she wasn't paying attention to what floor she was on, the response of her fellow cops was to rummage through the man's apartment looking for evidence of something illegal he was doing.

Now, yes, most cops are good guys doing a difficult job under difficult circumstances. But their willingness to protect and retain the bad apples has made them all look bad.

 

[2aguy]

and half the country is calling them all groomers.

No......we ate calling the groomers
groomers....and normal people who are teachers dont want groomers working with them

 

[westwall]

and half the country is calling them all groomers.

Only those who are. Morons like you are the ones who paint with a broad brush.

 

[pknopp]

Who wants a job where you might get held accountable for murdering someone?

 

[2aguy]

Who wants a job where you might get held accountable for murdering someone?

Wow...the stupid is strong with you today....the people responsible for 10s of thousands of young black men dying each year is the democrat party and their policies........and their blm brown shirts who have caused the police to stop doing their jobs, or made it impossible for them to do their jobs.......the number of black men who have died because of blm and the democrats is in the 10s of thousands........you doofus........the democrats, not police, are the problem.

 

[2aguy]

Chicago police are quitting and going to work in the surrounding suburbs.....and they have had a massive number of officers put in their retirement papers....

The blood that is flowing in Chicago is all on the hands of the democrats......who control that city top to bottom.....