NYPD exodus continues as cops feel ‘squeezed from every direction’

[Kamaji]

NYPD exodus continues as cops feel ‘squeezed from every direction’

By Dean Balsamini
July 8, 2023

Former NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell stepped down amid a steady stream of New York’s Finest beating her to the exits, according to troubling new data obtained by The Post.

Through June 30, 648 officers quit before retiring this year — a 22% spike from 2021, when 530 left, and an 87% rise from 2020, when 347 quit, NYPD pension data show.

The concerning “voluntary quits” — combined with NYPD recruiting problems leaves the 34,000 uniformed officers “at least 1,200 short,” the police union said.

“Cops are being squeezed from every direction. They are working inhumane amounts of forced overtime. The brass is pushing for more enforcement, while the police-oversight complex is pushing to ruin more cops’ careers,” said Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry, who reps “just over” 21,000 rank-and-file officers.

“Many cops can’t afford to keep taking that risk because the pay is still too low,” he added. “The NYPD will not be able to recruit its way out of this staffing emergency. It needs to make the job livable for the cops it already has.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/07/08/nypd-exodus-continues-as-cops-feel-squeezed-from-every-direction/

[PeteS in CA]

As long as NYPD know the City Council will attack them for doing their jobs too properly and NY DAs won't hold or prosecute criminals, NYPD will leak good officers, have trouble recruiting, and the quality of recruits is likely to decline.

Underlined references to NY can be replaced with SF, Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, etc. Fill in the blank with cities with similar misgovernance.

[Kamaji]

As long as NYPD know the City Council will attack them for doing their jobs too properly and NY DAs won't hold or prosecute criminals, NYPD will leak good officers, have trouble recruiting, and the quality of recruits is likely to decline.

Underlined references to NY can be replaced with SF, Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, etc. Fill in the blank with cities with similar misgovernance.

Exactly.  And you make a good point - the effect of all this is not just the overall rate of attrition, but the fact that it predominantly results in attrition of above-average cops - the kind we'd like to keep and have the rest emulate - and ultimately results in a force that is top-heavy with corrupt and incompetent cops.