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Analysis: Months after becoming eligible, hundreds of CT cops are not vaccinated
Rich Chumney
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Photos from the Black Lives Matter protest at the Norwalk Police Station in South Norwalk, Conn. Sunday, May 31, 2020.Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media
Months after becoming eligible for the coronavirus vaccine, hundreds of police officers in southwestern Connecticut still have not been vaccinated against the deadly pathogen, according to a survey by Hearst Connecticut Media.
Roughly 350 police officers at seven departments in the region remained unvaccinated as of last week, suggesting vaccine hesitancy is still rife among local officers similar to several larger cities nationwide. even as some departments race to near-total immunity.
“I don’t know if my application is still out there and I don’t know if it’s pending,” Colon said. “I don’t know if I need to reapply again.”
Colon isn’t the only one dealing with the issue. Hundreds of applications were put on hold indefinitely and there hasn’t been a new recruit class in the academy since March of last year. As a result, Philadelphia will not have any rookie officers during a year that’s on pace to be the most violent in recent history.
Meanwhile, veteran officers continue to retire. The police department is down to approximately 6,100 officers, nearly 300 short of what it’s budgeted to have.