Major Police Departments Losing Officers, Struggling With Recruiting
Posted on AllSides June 24th, 2021
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The largest police departments in the United States have seen a steady decline in officers over the past year and a half amid the CCP virus pandemic and a rash of anti-police activism.
The top three police departments in the country have lost thousands of officers since 2019, driven by an increase in retirements and resignations on top of recruiting woes. Reports of officers leaving in droves have been coming from other major jurisdictions as well.
Meanwhile, those cities have seen a significant uptick in murders and shootings.
The largest police agency in the country, the New...
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