militia group. homicides in major american cities have skyrocketed. near to date, portland are up 533%, albuquerque 131%, los angeles county has seen 111% increase and oakland is more than 82%. so for more on this, we are going to bring former milwaukee police chief ed flynn, thank you so much for being with us and good afternoon. as you have this rise in crime, you also have a rise in police retirements and resignation. over the course of the last year, new york city had a massive exodus, chicago retire retirements up 20% and how do you recruit officers when you have sharp rise in crime compounding the challenge of staffing? all of the issues are magnified on what has been unrelenting campaign to delegitimize and dehumanize
retirements urged by 45% nationwide, black lives matter protests erupted in spring of 2020. jillian: that impact atlanta where homicides are up 60%. founder of the wounded blue joins us to weigh in. thanks for being here. you said something alarming, the death of this crisis is not beginning to be felt. that is alarming and should be to so many across this country. when do we feel this? it is coming at us like a freight train. it is important people understand this what i call a law enforcement exodus syndrome has just begun. we have seen and photos of cops from all over the nation, big cities, small towns, the results in asheville, north carolina, they are down one third of their
that s really predictable. that s a really tight spot. don t worry. i used to hate parallel parking. [all together] me too. - hey. - you really outdid yourself. yes, we did. the all-new buick envision. an suv built around you. all of you. welcome back to the big sunday show. a violent weekend in liberal-run cities. at least four people are dead and dozens more hurt after shootings in savannah, georgia, austin, texas, and chicago. in new york city, the violence turned into chaos in washington square park where vandals tagged washington s statue with anti-police graffiti. this as new data shows police retirements surging by as much as 45% or across the nation. and, abby, i want to begin with you. but first, i want to put up this
June 9, 2021
After a year of controversy and heightened scrutiny, police departments around the country are facing a surge of retirements and a lag in applicants.
SHOW TRANSCRIPT I got on in June of 1992 so I m almost at 29 years at the end of the month. I personally have never seen morale be this low in the department, said Jim Calvino, president of the Chicago Police Sergeants Association.
Calvino says that low morale is helping to push a surge of retirements and recruitment troubles for Chicago PD.
Calvino: When I first got on, we marked our seniority basically, on our left sleeve of our outer garments. A star means 20 years. When I first got on, I d see guys with a star, a bar, a second bar, sometimes even two stars. Now guys are leaving. They re leaving. They just can t deal with it any longer.