Faced With Shrinking Ranks, LAPD Looks To Rehire Retired Officers
The Los Angeles Police Department is making a simple but unusual pitch to its retired cops: Come back. Please. Faced with a flood of departures and a trickle of recruits entering its training academy that have led to dwindling staffing levels, LAPD officials have drawn up plans that call for as many as 200 retired police officers to be rehired. On the campaign trail in her recent race for mayor, Karen Bass pledged to rebuild the department's ranks to 9,700 officers as the city confronts violent crime rates that remain above pre-pandemic levels. Bass didn't say how quickly she wanted to reach her goal, but, with about 9,200 officers currently on the force and the department failing to attract enough new recruits to keep up with the pace of attrition, making good on her promise anytime soon will be very difficult. About 600 cops are expected to retire or leave for other reasons in the next year — about 20% higher than the typical departure rate, according to LAPD Chief Michel Moore. As a stopgap measure, the department hopes a rarely used bureaucratic mechanism will allow it to regain lost ground. Known informally as the "bounce program," it allows the chief of police to bring retired officers back for up to a year. It typically has been used sparingly in the past to recall an individual officer whose specialized skill sets make them hard to replace, such as a homicide detective who retired while working a case that might otherwise fall without their involvement.
It looked like he decided to get a pay day.
Backfired on him.
“”Hernandez called for more mental health and supportive services””
The guy was a school teacher and are they saying he needed mental health care?
I would certainly agree that A LOT of them do!!!!
Wow, his cousin a co-founder of build luscious mansions, what a family.
LAPD Looks To Rehire Retired Officers
Good luck with that.
At least they aren’t asking Black people to stop running from the Police
“after Los Angeles police tased and shackled him following a traffic collision”
Sounds like they are leaving out a good bit of relevant stuff that happened after the collision, but before he got tased...
If it escalates its not minor. That guy could have gone nuts on the other driver.
Further, “minor” traffic accident is in the eye of the beholder and insurance company, a report needs to be filed by a law officer when fault is going to be determined.
These low iq folks never think things through, just run their mouths on impulses and feelings. And its low iq folks who’s first impulse is to fight other people, including cops.
Anyone who would work as a cop there is a fool. In fact. Every cop should just quit.