‘Bleeding blue’: Cops flee NYPD in biggest exodus since 9/11

NY Post ^ | January 7, 2023 | By Dean Balsamini

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The NYPD saw 3,701 cops retire or resign in 2022, the most since the post-9/11 exodus in 2002, when 3,846 cops said goodbye to the job, according to data obtained by The Post.

Pension fund numbers reveal the 2022 exits are 32% more than the 2,811 who left in 2021.

The mass migration took place as the NYPD hired 1,982 officers in 2022, leaving the department down some 1,700 cops, the data suggests.

Bail reform, resentment for the city’s vaccination mandate, the defund-the-police movement, cops feeling disrespected, and the lure of higher pay and lower stress proved to be the final push out the door for many cops.

Alexandre Tilan, 29, had six years on the job with the NYPD when he left the force in April, despite not being anywhere near the 22-year threshold for a half-pay retirement pension. He joined the St. Petersburg Police Department in Florida a month later.

“Since I’ve been here there’s been more respect,” said Tilan, now a member of the Suncoast Police Benevolent Association. “When I come to work, people say, ‘You’re always smiling.'”

“I was at top pay with the NYPD, which I think sits around $89,000. Right now … in Florida, I’m making $72,000,” said Tilan. “However, the weekly [take home is] higher because of the lack of state and city tax. When I reach top pay here it will be over $100,000.”

[steve86]

Too bad your opinions are bogus. Outlaw was known as anti-antifa in Portland and this position made her unpopular with city government. She also was not considered sufficiently pro-queer which again worked against favored status in Portland.

[TChad]

I believe they have to work 22 years before they can retire.

Thanks. It doesn't sound like NYC is exactly bending over backwards to hire new police.

[thefactor]

In 2022, the NYPD lost 3700 cops and hired 1900 cops. We are losing cops overall, but the damage is being minimized by putting "inside" cops back on the street and not replacing cops who retire from specialized units. So you have a lot less experience and fewer cops in specialized units, but you are able to maintain your level of cops on the street.

There are problems, that's for sure. The quality of cops being hired has gone down due to lowering of standards, and other departments are actively recruiting from our ranks. COVID policies has a disastrous effect on morale and the tourism industry (which was about $70 BILLION a year before COVID).

[PLMerite]

Why did so many bail after 9/11, emotional fallout from the attacks?

[Mears]

They were first responders….23 of them died.

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[PLMerite]

Okay, I can see that. Thanks.

[struggle]

wait a decade until NYC has an all robotic police force

[cgbg]

“The city of Boston is begging officers from the surrounding
suburbs to transfer to Boston.”

Boston has some of the wealthiest and safest suburbs in the country—particularly once you get ten or more miles out of town—easy job for cops.

They would be crazy to leave them for the city.

[vpintheak]

This is my shocked face... :-o

[rxh4n1]

Bringing misfits into the ranks will chase out more cops than the Leftists in city hall already have.

A Clockwork Orange predicted it.

I looked back at the well well welling one.
This one was then fatty old Billyboy, my old enemy. The
other was, of course, Dim, who had used to be my droog and
also the enemy of stinking fatty goaty Billyboy, but was now
a millicent with uniform and shlem and whip to keep order. I
said:
“Oh no.”
“Surprise, eh?” And old Dim came out with the old guff I
remembered so horrorshow: “Huh huh huh.”
“It’s impossible,” I said. “It can’t be so. I don’t believe
it.”
“Evidence of the old glazzies,” grinned Billyboy. “Nothing up
our sleeves. No magic, droog. A job for two who are now of
job-age. The police.”

[Organic Panic]

I disagree with your assessment of my opinion about Danielle Outlaw. She used her status as a stepping stone knowing full well her value as a totally unqualified black woman police chief. And you can not deny every city she used as a stepping stone was worse off after her short tenure as PC. While Antifa burned Portland she would get her nails did. I witnessed her career front and center as it impacted my direct family’s lives in Portland. She did NOTHING but give flowery speeches about “inclusion and diversity” and monkey branched her way in to one job from another higher paying job.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Smaller communities are gaining seasoned officers who no longer want the additional hassle of collapsing inner city society and the enabling politics of Democrats. At a gun shop the other day, I chatted with two cops who were both recent additions to the force here. Each had left a big city for a little less pay and a lot more ease — and generally lower cost of living away from Los Democratos feministos de Bidenito.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Liz Cheney can lead the way, searching behind the winos, drug users and pushers, pimps and hookers for any trace of Trump support....

[mewzilla]

NYC now has RCV for mayoral elections.

If NYC was so reliably lib, why would Deep State need to do that, hmmmm...?

[mewzilla]

Gothamites: Want to save your city, you still can. But you’ll need to go back to a one day Election Day, ban mail-in, ban ballot harvesting, ban early voting, use absentee only with an excuse, get rid of RCV, and go back to dumb voting machines.

Then, but only then, will you be able to vote your way out of extinction.