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Anti-cop sentiment is causing a nationwide police shortage
After months of anti-police sentiment, a shortage crisis has emerged in law enforcement, with cops leaving the force in droves and new applications hitting record lows.
Constant negative coverage of law enforcement by the media has led to anti-police sentiment becoming mainstream.
The defund the police and abolish the police movements, plus the threat of riots, are taking their tolls on America s cops and contributing to a police shortage across the country.
Record numbers of police officers are now taking retirement while applications from new recruits are historically low.
The Philadelphia Police Department is now worrying understaffed.
N.J. is seeking State Police recruits, but applications are ‘historically low,’ officials say
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Members of the 161st New Jersey State Police Class parade during the graduation ceremony at the Prudential Center in Newark on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media
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The problem is especially acute for the state’s largest agency.
In some years the State Police would field between 15,000 and 20,000 applicants, according to Col. Patrick Callahan, the department’s acting superintendent. But they only had a “historically low” 2,023 qualified applicants as of Thursday, about a week before deadline, Callahan said.
Leaders have repeatedlyasked more to apply.
How the Police Bank Millions Through Their Union Contracts
The public funds six-figure “sick day” payouts, $2,500 “perfect attendance” bonuses and lucrative “extra duty” assignments identified in a ProPublica, Asbury Park Press analysis of New Jersey police union contracts.
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One town’s police contract guaranteed a retiring lieutenant $121,000 for unused sick time. Another’s promises officers six months pay with no work required as a parting retirement benefit. In another contract, cops get paid $109 an hour for side gigs like monitoring traffic at construction sites.
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