NYPD on record pace to quit

The Democrats can't keep themselves from stepping on a rake. What was once a call to defund the police, is now a call to hire as many cops as possible to stem the flow of blood on the streets of the Big Apple. The Dems can't seem to figure out what they want.

So far this year, over 1,500 NYPD officers have resigned or retired and the department is on pace to be the biggest annual exodus since they got rid of Roman numerals and abacuses. [H/T New York Post]

As of May 31, 524 cops have resigned and 1,072 retired--a 38% spike from the same time last year when 1,159 left the job. And it's a 46% increase from 2020, when 1.092 left by the same date. The Dems wanted this and they got it; now they have to walk it back. Will they admit they were wrong? If you believe they will, there's a bridge in Brooklyn up for sale.

One can imagine that cop-hatred, bail reform, and crime rising at the speed of inflation, that cops have become fed up and those who wanted to join the NYPD have become turned off at the prospect of wearing the uniform.

One NYPD cop who recently left the city for a Long Island police department job told The Post that after six-and-a-half years with the NYPD, that anti-cop hostility helped him with his decision.

The Post reported:

“The city is out of control — especially since bail reform,” according to the former Queens cop, who asked to be identified only as “Joe.” The mantra now is “get out while you still can.”

Joe’s patrol gig “got worse and worse” over time, he said.

“The last few years so many people had been leaving and manpower was so low that you’d go to work and you’d answer 25 to 30 jobs a day and you’re burnt out by the end of the day,” he said, adding, “there was no time for law enforcement” because it would be “radio run, radio run, radio run all day long.”

But after he made an arrest,  “they were back in the precinct picking up their property the same day.” 

The current roster of 34,687 is a significant drop from 2019, when there were 36,900 officers in uniform.

“Last year the number of cops who quit before becoming eligible for their full pension was the highest in two decades. This year we are on pace for the highest ever recorded,” the source told The Post.

“The NYPD is sliding deeper into a staffing crisis that will ultimately hurt public safety,” Police Benevolent Association Patrolman Union President Patrick Lynch said.

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“Low pay, inferior benefits and constant abuse from the City Council and other anti-cop demagogues has pushed attrition to record highs,” Lynch added, noting the Department “is struggling” to fill Academy classes.

The city is bleeding blue.

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