The exodus of officers from the New York Police Department continues uninterrupted.
These brave men and women in blue are grieved by everyone. The people above them have demonized them and rotten apples in the public treat them as if they were fascists.
Things in New York have never been perfect, but law and order really took a turn during the George Floyd riots and the COVID lockdowns. Suddenly looting became a normal phenomenon and the police were not allowed to do their job.
Is it any wonder why so many of them are leaving?
The New York Post reports:
NYPD exodus continues as officers feel “squeezed from all directions.”
Former NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell resigned amid a steady stream of New York’s Finest beating her to the exits, according to disturbing new data obtained by The Post.
Through June 30, 648 officers retired before retiring this year — a 22% spike from 2021, when 530 left, and an 87% increase from 2020, when 347 retired, retirement data from the U.S. NYPD.
The worrying “voluntary stoppages” — coupled with the NYPD’s recruiting problems — leave the 34,000 uniformed officers “at least 1,200 short,” the police union said.
“Police are under pressure from all sides. They work inhumane amounts of forced overtime. The military is pushing for more enforcement, while the police oversight complex is pushing for ruining more officers’ careers,” said Patrick Hendry, president of the Police Benevolent Association, which represents “just over” 21,000 regular officers.
“Many officers can’t afford to keep taking that risk because the pay is still too low,” he added. “The NYPD will not be able to work its way out of this personnel crisis. It must make the work livable for the agents it already has.”
Here is a perfect example of what these people have to put up with.
NYC Council staffer under fire for urging protesters to ‘throw bottles’ at police and ‘burn’ NYPD vans https://t.co/hHozhZ8gik pic.twitter.com/8FPfy1p5zP
— New York Post (@nypost) July 8, 2023
Eric Adams had to change all this. He campaigned for it.
So far he has not delivered.