Following the "defund the police" movement and the "abolish the police" movement, constant negative coverage of law enforcement by the media, anti-police sentiment becoming mainstream, and the threat of riots have contributed to a police shortage across the country.
The Philadelphia Police Department currently has 268 vacancies and is expecting even more shortages in the near future.
"From Jan. 1 through Thursday, 79 Philadelphia officers have been accepted into the city's Deferred Retirement Option Program, meaning they intend to retire within four years, according to Mayor Jim Kenney's office," the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. "During the same time period last year, just 13 officers had been accepted into the program, the office said."
"It's the perfect storm. We are anticipating that the department is going to be understaffed by several hundred members, because hundreds of guys are either retiring or taking other jobs and leaving the department," Mike Neilon, spokesperson for the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police, told the newspaper.
Neighboring New Jersey is facing a "recruiting crisis," according to Pat Colligan, president of the New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association.
Colligan said that recent notorious police-involved deaths of citizens such as George Floyd, Tamir Rice, and Breonna Taylor have impacted recruiting efforts.
"Every action has a reaction. When you vilify every police officer for every bad police officer's decision, [people] don't want to take this job anymore," Colligan, head of New Jersey's largest police union, said. "It's been a very trying and difficult time to...
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A mate called me from Seattle 6-7 months ago. Knows I have guns and he needed one immediate. Said no online dealer would sell him one and neither would gun shops. Said he asked for "Gun Show loophole" and did not know why they laughed at him. He asked me. Said he would pay cash for one on my guns he would drive over and I stopped him said "can't mate. WA ST has no private sales for delivery the gun must be taken to FFL dealer and you have t go through waiting period". He said NO! Must have gun today! I told him to go to White Center with cash and find some darkie gangsters but beware of who you as whitey idiot are then dealing with. A Dimmo of course. Finally did get a gun more than a month later. Asked me to come show him how it worked. And did I have any "silencer bullets I could bring along". Not easy to be friends with a Dimmo whacko.
if only we vilified race-baiters at the same rate that we did cops, we'd get less of them too
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