October 19, 2022 3:30pm EDT
St. Louis police department resignations stack up as leaders sound the alarm: 'reaching critical mass'
Pile of old uniforms known as 'Mount Exodus' has grown at police department as cops resign
By Emma Colton | Fox News
Resignations have continued piling up at the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department this year, setting off concerns from top law enforcement leaders.
"We’re reaching critical mass," St. Louis Police Officers Association President Jay Schroeder said this month of staffing issues on the city’s force.
About 819 officers have left the department since 2017, according to the St. Louis Police Pension Board. The department lost an average of 119 officers each year between 2017 and 2019. In 2020, 129 officers left the force, with an additional 174 leaving in 2021, according to the pension data.
St. Louis, which often ranks as one of the least safe cities in the country, joins a growing list of police departments across the country that are bleeding officers in recent years, most notably after calls to defund the police echoed across the nation in 2020.
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