Wiki says Chicago PD has about 12,000 officers.
When 8% of your force leaves in ten months of one year and nobody wants to work for you, then you’ve got serious problems.
Note that, if you annualize the loss, it is 9.5% of the police officer force. That is serious attrition and only 51 replacements joined. I’d wager they had to really lower standards to attract those 51, too.
The stupid police just get in the way of crime and prevent people from violating other peoples rights and safety
Probably did. Which is anther problem....
Our son is a 9 year veteran of CFD, criminology from Marquette and former Army Ranger and he is leaving in June. Wants out of local law enforcement altogether since no one has your back and state qualified immunity is likely gone. Chicago is screwed and it is only going to get uglier, uglier even than Beetlejuice.