As crime rates climb across the nation, police departments in several major U.S. cities are facing a crisis, namely, the inability to recruit new police officers.
According to a Star Tribune analysis, Minneapolis has the lowest ratio of police officers to population among the 22 American cities that it sampled with 1.4 officers per 1,000 residents, which is half the national average of 2.4.
Tiffany seemed to claim that the implementation of the decree was related to the decline in police officers, to which Garland responded that "Minneapolis has been losing police officers for many years." Minneapolis is hardly alone.
New York City - another city whose legislators embraced the "Defund the Police" narrative - is also experiencing a police officer shortage during crime surges.
In March The New York Post reported that New York Police Department officers have been resigning at a "Record breaking pace." Early in 2023, resignations more than doubled from the same period the year before as major crimes-such as burglary, robbery, and grand larcenies-continued to rise in the city.
The city council's progressive caucus, comprising 19 of the council's 51 members, said that as a statement of principle, it will "Do everything we can to reduce the size and scope of the NYPD and prioritize and fund alternative safety infrastructure that truly invests in our communities." In the middle of the police officer shortage and the rise in crime, the mayor's administration is now proposing cuts to NYPD overtime pay to help the city deal with the influx of illegal immigrants.
"New York doesn't deserve this. The asylum seekers don't deserve this." In a June 2021 survey comparing staffing levels in the year since the BLM protests, the Police Executive Research Forum-a nonprofit organization that focuses on police issues-found that resignations and retirements were driving the decrease in police officers across almost 200 police agencies nationwide.
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