NYPD officers leave in record-breaking exodus before full pensions set in: They're risking 'everything' | Fox News
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Sad state of affairs.
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Record number of NYPD officers quit before pensions take effect
Former NYPD detective Jason Caputo and Blue Lives Matter NYC founder Joe Imperatrice weigh in on New York City's crime wave and obstacles to completing their jobs.
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Over 1,000 New York City police officers have filed to leave the department in 2022, raising doubts about the city's ability to maintain a substantive police force and maintain safety and security.
Former NYPD detective Jason Caputo and Blue Lives Matter NYC founder Joe Imperatrice weighed in on the law enforcement exodus on "Fox & Friends First" Monday, arguing that incentives for working with The Big Apple's police force no longer exist.
"You're losing qualified [people], you're losing experience, you're losing so much when it comes to that kind of stuff," Caputo told guest host Ashley Strohmier.
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The crest on the jacket of a New York City police officer on May 19, 2011. (iStock)
The former detective's comments come a month after he left his 18-year service and as others partaking in the exodus leave before receiving full pensions.
Caputo claimed the city is "steering away" from encouraging officers to apprehend criminals, adding that city and NYPD leaders are "putting victims and police in jeopardy."
NYPD officers respond to the scene of a shooting that left multiple people injured in the Flatbush neighborhood of the Brooklyn on April 6, 2021. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Strohmier shifted the discussion to New York City's "diaphragm law," which prohibits officers from placing suspects in choke holds or exerting pressure on a suspect's diaphragm and pointed to a recent example of MMA fighter Ro Malabanan, who helped take down a criminal suspect by securing him against the ground.
"The progressive city council would have went after an officer [if they had done the same move], they would have went after their job," Imperatrice said. "Any type of fight - especially martial arts - you end up on the ground, and that's what it's all about; you're trying to subdue the individual. That MMA fighter did nothing wrong, but he had to use his body weight to subdue them until officers arrived…"
Imperatrice and Caputo both claimed officers are risking "everything" to do their jobs amid a hostile environment toward law enforcement.
Caputo followed up on the topic, answering Strohmier's question about incentives for joining the NYPD by saying there are "none," and adding, "I wouldn't really encourage that many people to take this job anymore."
Taylor Penley is a production assistant with Fox News.
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Not a good look. Especially with the onslaught of illegals being shipped up there
NYC is a sanctuary city. They'll welcome in the illegals with open arms until the crime starts to rise (as we know it will). Then they'll start crying and blame everybody but themselves for the mess.
Heads of police unions and police fraternal groups like this are among the most conservative people in this country. I dont know exactly what he said on Fox but you can be sure it was one sided.
"Heads of police unions and police fraternal groups like this are among the most conservative people in this country."
So what? Most big city mayors are among the most liberal people in this country.
Once again you fail to address the problem caused by left's mishandling and incompetence of law enforcement issues
And NYC becomes an even more target rich environment for crooks.
Go get yours in NYC scumbags. Free game .....
Driving the good officers out. I'm sure that will pay off in ten years when the only people willing to be police officers are those with no other options.
“..,the only people willing to be police officers are those with no other options.”
Is this scenario somehow new?
Thus the inherent problem…recruiting the least able to understand the big picture, giving them no training to deal with the complicated nuances involved, and then cutting them loose when it inevitably goes south.
NYPD has lowered the standards on it's entrance physical test, maybe now some progressives can make the grade.
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Funny how this story was missed:
561 new police officers join the NYPD
That almost makes up for the 641 that left in 2021...............before 20 years
But aren't they still very much understaffed? I thought I read that there were over 1000 officers who retired in 2022 so far, and close to the same numbers that retired last year. In addition to those as listed in 5.1 who left before retirement.
I read that it was over 3,150 officers in 2021.
Is that supposed to make up for the experience and connections in the neighborhoods that the officers who left had?
I saw that in the news along side of 1,472 officers have retired from the force, and 647 have resigned so far this year.
Here in DC, the city is offering a $20K hiring bonus.
Are they though? Are the people who are quitting really the good cops? The cops who look for ways to not shoot, beat, or choke citizens to death? Are they the cops who keep people from dying in jail? Are they cops who have friendly relationships with the people on their beat? Are they cops who actually risk themselves to protect the people?
Or are we losing the bullies? Are we losing the mindless brutes? Are we losing the cops whose first response to any problem is to point a gun at it? Are we losing the cops who exaggerate or straight up lie on their reports? The ones who fabricate and falsify evidence? Are we losing cops who would stand around while a lunatic shoots up a school?
Because if it’s the latter, then good riddance.