Police faces see recruitment struggles, surge in retirements
MENSAH M. DEAN, JULIE SHAW and VINNY VELLA, The Philadelphia Inquirer
May 1, 2021
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Amid growing calls for police reform and national debate over the deadly use of force, police departments in Philadelphia and beyond are struggling to retain and attract officers, law enforcement officials say.
Across the region and the nation, police officials and union leaders described the state of recruiting as in “crisis” mode.
“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,” said Mike Neilon, spokesperson for the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge #5, the union that represents city police officers.
Police departments struggle to keep and attract officers
Updated May 01, 2021;
Posted May 01, 2021
Protesters confront police during a march, Tuesday Oct. 27, 2020, in Philadelphia. Hundreds of demonstrators marched in West Philadelphia over the death of Walter Wallace, a Black man who was killed by police. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, file)AP
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By MENSAH M. DEAN, JULIE SHAW and VINNY VELLA, The Philadelphia Inquirer
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Amid growing calls for police reform and national debate over the deadly use of force, police departments in Philadelphia and beyond are struggling to retain and attract officers, law enforcement officials say.
Across the region and the nation, police officials and union leaders described the state of recruiting as in “crisis” mode.
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Protesters march up North Front Street on April 13 in Columbus, demonstrating against the fatal shooting of a Black man shot and killed by police in Westerville, Ohio.
Amid growing calls for police reform and national debate over the deadly use of force, police departments are struggling to retain and attract officers, law enforcement officials say.
Across the nation, police officials and union leaders described the state of recruiting as in “crisis” mode.
“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,” said Mike Neilon, spokesperson for the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 5, the union that represents city police officers.
Philly DA Enjoyed European Excursion as Homicides Spiked
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As Philadelphia s top law enforcement officer spent two weeks on a jaunt through Europe financed by a liberal dark money group, the city witnessed 3 murders, 30 rapes, 63 armed robberies, and 120 assaults with a firearm.
Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner traveled to Germany and Portugal in May 2019, a year in which his city experienced a 12-year high in homicides. Liberal dark money group Fair and Just Prosecution footed the bill for Krasner and other attendees to learn from the European countries how to ease up on crime.