More than 2,500 NYPD officers leave force in 2023 amid 'inhumane amounts of forced overtime'
By: Madeleine Hubbard (Just The News)
The department has more than 33,500 uniformed officers, data shows, but New York City budget cuts will whittle the number of officers to 29,000 by the end of the fiscal year 2025, even as crime appears to be on the rise after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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One officer said he thinks about 95% of his police class plans to retire as soon as they are eligible this summer.
More than 2,500 New York Police Department officers have left the force so far in 2023, which at least one police official attributes to cops being forced to work a significant number of overtime hours.
So far this year, 2,516 officers have left the New York force, according to pension data recently reported by The New York Post.
Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry, whose group is the largest police union in the United States, said officers have been leaving the force for years without being replaced, forcing the officers who remain employed to work "inhumane amounts of forced overtime."
Additionally, so far this year 1,040 officers have quit before working the 20 years required to receive their full pensions - more than twice the number who did so in 2020.
"The workload is a leading factor driving people away from the job," Hendry said. "If the NYPD is going to survive these staffing reductions, it cannot just keep squeezing cops for more hours."
Another officer, who asked to remain anonymous, said he plans to retire this summer as soon as he hits 20 years at the department.
"I keep in contact with the guys that I was in the police academy with and we all have the same notion," said the officer who finished training in 2004 with a class of 2,400. "I think maybe 95% of us are planning on leaving."
Officers who retire after 20 or more years are able to collect 50% of their final average salary as a pension.
The department has more than 33,500 uniformed officers, data shows, but New York City budget cuts will whittle the number of officers to 29,000 by the end of the fiscal year 2025, even as crime appears to be on the rise after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Declaring to be a "Sanctuary" shit hole doesn't help things in the least. It's no wonder people are leaving.
They'll never get the genie back in the lamp.
It was all unnecessary. The left made the country far less safe.
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How are they going to claim a 2% decrease when there is this in your link:
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The FBI released its annual national crime stats. The data is horribly incomplete
Maybe because NY and LA had no crime. After all Don Lemon had a great meal out and saw no crime when he was out.
Whoops............................
I wonder why?
I think they may be under the belief that if they don't report it, then it never happened.
There is no direct correlation between NYC being a sanctuary city and the massive exodus from the ranks of the NYPD - the exodus is more related to the post 2020 policy of tolerance for crime and criminals. No sane person would argue that reforms in the criminal justice system are not long overdue. The fact that NYC (and other major cities) have significantly changed what is and is not charged and tried by District Attorneys has allowed petty criminals and not so petty criminals to thrive in NYC (and other cities) as police no longer arrest them just to see them released without bail to commit the same crimes over and over. Pro-active policing (undercover units etc) are greatly reduced and criminal groups are more active and aggressive. Police while never universally loved anywhere) are openly reviled and career officers are looking for more money, safer environments and more respect outside the major cities.
And citizens in the cities are the ones who suffer