Administrated by Homeland Security, of course. I'm sure it would be just as efficient as TSA
Posted on 04/26/2021 4:33:20 AM PDT by massmike
Following the "defund the police" movement and the "abolish the police" movement, constant negative coverage of law enforcement by the media, anti-police sentiment becoming mainstream, and the threat of riots have contributed to a police shortage across the country.
The Philadelphia Police Department currently has 268 vacancies and is expecting even more shortages in the near future.
"From Jan. 1 through Thursday, 79 Philadelphia officers have been accepted into the city's Deferred Retirement Option Program, meaning they intend to retire within four years, according to Mayor Jim Kenney's office," the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. "During the same time period last year, just 13 officers had been accepted into the program, the office said."
Neighboring New Jersey is facing a "recruiting crisis," according to Pat Colligan, president of the New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association.
Col. Patrick Callahan, the acting superintendent of the New Jersey State Police, said the state's largest police agency received a "historically low" number of applications this year. In some years, the New Jersey State Police would usually receive between 15,000 to 20,000 applications – this year they only received 2,023 qualified applicants as of Thursday, according to NJ.com.
The Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3 said there were "recruitment and retention issues," which prompted the "topic of closing police district(s)."
"Our Patrol numbers are now below 700 officers which is about 300-400 below what is needed," the Baltimore FOP said, according to WBFF-TV. "This creates huge safety issues for our officers and for the citizens of Baltimore."
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Rich Hollywood Elite Turns Oscars Into Far-Left Hate Speech Targeting Cops
This is why police officers are retiring in droves. The fact that our cities will become far less safe means nothing to these untalented clowns. Why would it? Many of them have very elaborate security details, and don’t have to worry about their safety. Hopefully few Americans will watch this crap.
Hollywood is dead. Finished. They destroyed America’s film industry – once the unparalleled world leader in entertainment.
They’ve been shoveling their communist crap down our throats and Americans have had it.
Related – Fact Check: Oscar Winner Claims Police Killings Happen ‘Disproportionately’ to Black People
This is exactly what they want.
The Democrats plan is working. Waiting to hear of a federal police state.
Thanks Dems!
Never saw this coming. /sarc
"Our Patrol numbers are now below 700 officers which is about 300-400 below what is needed," the Baltimore FOP said, according to WBFF-TV.
Who in their right mind would want to be a Baltimore city police officer? The city government is openly hostile to the police department and God help you if you should shoot a black perpetrator no matter the circumstances.
It may be a Quarky Universe, but Newtonian Mechanics still rule Ordinary Reality.
Equal and opposite reactions abound.
Note to Albany and NYC pols: Nobody who voted with their feet will come back to a lawless city.
I’m thinking the goal is to federalize all LE, including state and local.
Take away all local control.
Note the difference in the way the Floyd and Babbitt cases have been treated.
As desired by the leftists.
Turn our cities into burning battlegrounds. Then, (unwillingly, they’ll claim with sad faces) become our needed saviors by taking martial control over us.
Read 1984 to learn about the methods. (In 1984, nuke war catalyzed Big Brother into existence. Eurasia and Eastasia each had their own Big Brother.)
...and this may very well mean the new cops replacing the old ones will be “woke”.
Not good.
The left’s plan of demonizing the police is having it’s intended effect. It doesn’t take much of a peak over the horizon to see the new “brown shirts” coming.
You cannot, in clear mind, want to be a police officer right now.
Pay is low, risk is high and you can end up in jail, chastised by everybody.
That will drive up the wages in Democratic strongholds and bust budgets. Bit of a vicious cycle that is only getting worse.
Administrated by Homeland Security, of course. I'm sure it would be just as efficient as TSA
I’d love to see US Army recruiting statistics also....
Isn’t it more likely to be the national guard deployed?
Exactly right. This is the logical end of "defund the police" and the stripping of qualified immunity in states like Hellinois (where I live.)
Anyone who isn't prepared today to defend themselves and their families are just dead men walking.
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