will come back to the big sunday show as a memphis police department disbands the scorpion unit whose members were involved in the horrific beating of tyree nichols there are new questions of the hiring practices. two of the five memphis police officers charged in his death were hired after the department loosened his hiring requirements. the department dropped the requirement 2020 that requires and associates to greet were 54 college credits. i gotta tell you what are the things that disturb me when i read this. this is supposed to be an elite unit in the worst of the worst in at least two of the good people that were involved in this had been on the force for less than three years. i don t know if it s elite but the idea like they said going into the worst of the worst people don t want that job. even though they have trouble recruiting they are obviously trying they lowered the
cannot hand their patients over to a85 they cannot hand their patients over to a&e. they can t do that because a&e is full. a&e. they can t do that because a&e is full. a85 a&e. they can t do that because a&e is full, a&e is full because they can t is full, a&e is full because they can t move patients onto the words come can t move patients onto the words come about can t move patients onto the words come about 40% of people taken to hospital come about 40% of people taken to hospital by ambulance and up on the wards hospital by ambulance and up on the wards the hospital by ambulance and up on the wards. the words are fall because about wards. the words are fall because about a wards. the words are fall because about a quarter of the people in hospital in beds at the moment our elderly hospital in beds at the moment our elderly people who are medically capable elderly people who are medically capable of being discharged, but not medically capable of being discharg
some of you folks. it feels like you re inside of an oven that is turned on to its highest point. can you give me a sense are you having any trouble recruiting? are you worried about having enough people to fight these fires as they get bigger, hotter and faster? you know, it is a challenge in the sense that it is very hard work. it s a challenging job and the conditions aren t optimal. as you re describing those hot temperatures like an oeven, that s the environment we work in. we re fortunate in the sense that we have a robust workforce. we don t have issues of getting people to want to join cal fire because it s a great organization and we do a lot of great things for the public. thank you for your insight. good luck to the folks out there trying to keep everyone else safe and putting their lives on
striking at key, critical areas such as bridges, the river where reenforcement cans come from the russians, strike those. logistical areas, the command and control areas, the artillery, that s how they are going to make success. if they continue to do those smart things like striking deep, they can really put the russians on their heels. what is your sense of the rusia s current military capacity now? are those reports they are having trouble recruiting accurate? the assessment is that the russians have lost somewhere between 80,000 soldiers either killed or wounded. and as you know, president putin has been on this huge recruiting effort. he s trying to recruit 137,000. in addition to that, he just formed this new corp. where he s
todd: they are having trouble recruiting because of this attack on the notion of being an officer, notion of law enforce mentsz? we don t recruit, we can t recruit. we heard from our recruiters it is embarrassing when you don t have anything to offer that will permeate this issue going on in our country. it feels like an attack on law enforcement. our profession is dying and will continue that way, and will not get better unless we step up and do something to stop that and to ensure that we have folks that want to come do the job. todd: when your business dies, the business of policing go the way of dot do-do, as well.