Bratton warns NYPD will suffer ‘crisis’ shortage of ranks for next few years

[Kamaji]

Bratton warns NYPD will suffer ‘crisis’ shortage of ranks for next few years

By Sam Raskin
July 10, 2022

Ex-Big Apple top cop Bill Bratton is warning that the city will face a “crisis”-level shortage of Finest over the next few years due to the spate of departures among frustrated ranks and the defund-the-police movement.

The former commissioner of New York City’s police force issued the dire forecast during a radio appearance that aired Sunday — amid record-setting NYPD retirements and resignations and the City Council and Mayor Eric Adams finalizing a spending plan that modestly ups police funding but does not add more personnel.

“Mayor Adams was not able to get an increase in the size of the department with the City Council. He didn’t try to get an increase because he knew that the progressive wing of that City Council, which is 32 of its 51 members, under no circumstance would support more money for more cops,” said Bratton, referring to the body’s Progressive Caucus, on WABC’s “The Cats Roundtable, hosted by John Catsimatidis.

“So, effectively, the department is growing smaller, not getting larger,” Bratton said. “You can offset that with the use of overtime, but the overtime becomes a problem because [some] officers [will] make so much from overtime this year that a lot of them are going to retire next year because their pension is based on their last couple of years of salary plus overtime.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/07/10/bratton-warns-nypd-will-suffer-crisis-shortage-of-ranks/

[Kamaji]

A completely self-inflicted wound.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Defunding the police emboldens the criminals.

[Fishrrman]

How many capable young white guys would consider joining the NYPD, considering the events of the last two years...?

[PeteS in CA]

City officials who view police officers as targets and DAs who release thugs back onto the streets within minutes or hours are not good recruiting tools? Who'd athunk it?

[PeteS in CA]

How many capable young white guys would consider joining the NYPD, considering the events of the last two years...?

  Capable young black guys, capable young Hispanic guys, and capable young Asian guys are a different species who think differently?  And women think differently? 

[Kamaji]

  Capable young black guys, capable young Hispanic guys, and capable young Asian guys are a different species who think differently?  And women think differently? 

Exactly.