Cops leaving Democrat cities and states

[KennyPowers]

Across America, cops are quitting.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/com...-20201113.html

Colwyn, Pennsylvania, is down to just one police officer per shift. Its acting police chief says that the borough council seems to want his department gone.

As many as 14 officers moved to leave the Norman, Oklahoma police force after the city council voted to defund their department.

A majority of officers left the force in Knightstown, Indiana, including the chief, because “there is no support for the department, no town council backbone for us,” one former officer said.

These arenÂ’t isolated incidents, but part of a wave that has swept the country following nationwide anti-police protests in recent months. Renewed public hostility to cops appears to have worsened a long decline in their numbers, stretching back to the Great Recession. ThatÂ’s bad news for both public safety and police-community relations: fewer cops likely means both more crime and more police misconduct.

The attrition is not limited to small towns. A survey of news stories indicates that across AmericaÂ’s 50 largest cities, at least 23 have seen chiefs or line officers resign, retire, or take disability this year. Nearly 3,700 beat cops have left, a large proportion from the NYPD (down 7% of its officers) but with big drops in Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Atlanta, and elsewhere, too. The Major Cities Chiefs Association told the Wall Street Journal that 18 of its 69 member executives had retired, resigned, or been fired over the past year.

Cities are struggling to replace these departing officers. In Colorado Springs, Colorado, the department has fallen 25% short of its recruitment goal amid what chief Vince Niski called “social unrest.” And potential executives are refusing the job, Houston P.D. chief and president of the MCCA Art Acevedo told the Wall Street Journal: “There’s a lot of folks that are hesitant when they see chiefs are getting beat up and getting thrown under the bus by their bosses.”

Some of these departures represent normal turnover, like the retirement of Virginia Beach chief Jim Cervera, who hit the cityÂ’s mandatory retirement age this year. Others likely represent instances of underperforming chiefs being replaced. But many are clearly casualties of the current moment, like PortlandÂ’s Jami Resch, forced out because her command staff was all white.

In city after city, departing officers cite a hostile climate, including the rioting that recently left 30 officers injured in Philadelphia. In Seattle, those who left (over 100 this year) cited fears for their personal safety and the agenda of the “socialist” city council as their reason for quitting. In San Francisco, nearly 30 officers have left because of the attitudes of everyone from homeowners to the homeless: “It’s . . . nice working at a place where everyone isn’t mad at you,” one former SFPD officer, now in Texas, said.

It’s plain that the protests, which have seen participants assault officers, set fire to precincts, and abuse cops verbally, have made the job worse. Even if one believes that all these departures are individually good—that the retiring cops were incompetent, say, and the resigning chiefs corrupt—it’s hard to dispute the harmful cumulative effect.

The size of a police force and the crime rate are strongly linked. Research consistently finds that increasing the number of officers on the streets cuts crime, with one analysis suggesting that from a cost-benefit perspective, AmericaÂ’s streets are likely under-policed. When cops get pulled off the beat, crime goes up. One study of Dallas P.D. data linked a 10% drop in presence to a 7% increase in crime.

Fewer cops likely also means more police misconduct. After all, the remaining officers must work longer and more stressful hours, and tend to grow more sympathetic to using force compared with less-stressed colleagues. Research has found that fatigue predicts an rise in public complaints against cops: a 13-hour rather than 10-hour shift significantly boosts their prevalence, while back-to-back shifts quadruple their odds.

[KennyPowers]

Portland official who called 911 on Lyft driver blames fear of 'white supremacists'
'It was my responsibility to make sure I got home safe'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/por...e-supremacists

Over 60 Portland 911 calls go unheeded overnight as police respond to riot
https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-riots-911-calls


Antifa blm progressives are out attacking citizens and cops, burning down police precincts, destroying car dealerships, looting stores and then you have defund the police people calling cops for help because they are scared of being in a car with a white person... Democrat cities are going to get what they deserve with cops bailing on them. Covid and crime.

[KennyPowers]

Chicago Mayor Defends Personal Police Protection
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/chi...ce-protection/

Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot (D.) defended the personal police force deployed on her residential street, saying she has a right to protect her property and her family.

"We are living in very different times and IÂ’ve seen the threats that have come in, and I have an obligation to keep my home, my wife, my 12-year-old, and my neighbors safe," Lightfoot said.

Oh... I get it. Defunding the police means for regular citizens and neighborhoods, not corrupt lying thief politicians. The citizens get to keep paying for police to protect low ranking politicians, and their remaining taxes that would have went to police will be written off as a yearly bonus for the top government officials and their friends. They need cops to protect their family after all. F*ck the families of the citizens that want cops, amirite? Those peasants aren't worth protecting, they are replaceable. The left is producing ballots everyday, at least the ones that didn't go to planned parenthood and abort their ballot.

And they wonder why so many people have guns. I don't know... Maybe because we have to protect ourselves from morons that beat up police and have driven them into quitting. More people will have to defend themselves with shrinking police forces. And apparently there will be few people to investigate it. They already can't keep up with 911 calls in some areas. Trump supporters don't want to put their lives on the line for leftists, mainly because leftists make up like 90% of the violence and destruction while wanting to defund them, saying they want them dead. Those now former cops and soon to be former cops will stick to protecting their family and new conservative neighbors in the conservative voting suburbs they've moved to.

[JohnnySic]

They should leave if they can. Why stay somewhere were the local "leadership" is against you and where you are unappreciated if not outright demonized? Let the liberal cities have their police free or reduced police society. Its gonna be entertaining as shit.

[TheMan]

Good...it's called self correction. America was heading towards being a police state. I have never had to call the cops for anything, I have a piece and I have these hands. Stop being scurred little pu55ies.

[AKA_AAP]

[Nanners]

As someone who has the misfortune of living on the outskirts of the rotted out husk of a city formerly known as Portland, thank god this state still has lax gun laws...

[Shogon]

[Gruppenführer]

This is embarrassing for that Portland woman.

Just like the Democrats want to put people who don't agree with them on lists, the police should put the people who want them defunded on a list. If you're on that list, they can hang up on you. Or tell you to go to hell.

[Jasper]

Across America, cops are quitting.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/com...-20201113.html

Colwyn, Pennsylvania, is down to just one police officer per shift. Its acting police chief says that the borough council seems to want his department gone.

As many as 14 officers moved to leave the Norman, Oklahoma police force after the city council voted to defund their department.

A majority of officers left the force in Knightstown, Indiana, including the chief, because “there is no support for the department, no town council backbone for us,” one former officer said.

These arenÂ’t isolated incidents, but part of a wave that has swept the country following nationwide anti-police protests in recent months. Renewed public hostility to cops appears to have worsened a long decline in their numbers, stretching back to the Great Recession. ThatÂ’s bad news for both public safety and police-community relations: fewer cops likely means both more crime and more police misconduct.

The attrition is not limited to small towns. A survey of news stories indicates that across AmericaÂ’s 50 largest cities, at least 23 have seen chiefs or line officers resign, retire, or take disability this year. Nearly 3,700 beat cops have left, a large proportion from the NYPD (down 7% of its officers) but with big drops in Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Atlanta, and elsewhere, too. The Major Cities Chiefs Association told the Wall Street Journal that 18 of its 69 member executives had retired, resigned, or been fired over the past year.

Cities are struggling to replace these departing officers. In Colorado Springs, Colorado, the department has fallen 25% short of its recruitment goal amid what chief Vince Niski called “social unrest.” And potential executives are refusing the job, Houston P.D. chief and president of the MCCA Art Acevedo told the Wall Street Journal: “There’s a lot of folks that are hesitant when they see chiefs are getting beat up and getting thrown under the bus by their bosses.”

Some of these departures represent normal turnover, like the retirement of Virginia Beach chief Jim Cervera, who hit the cityÂ’s mandatory retirement age this year. Others likely represent instances of underperforming chiefs being replaced. But many are clearly casualties of the current moment, like PortlandÂ’s Jami Resch, forced out because her command staff was all white.

In city after city, departing officers cite a hostile climate, including the rioting that recently left 30 officers injured in Philadelphia. In Seattle, those who left (over 100 this year) cited fears for their personal safety and the agenda of the “socialist” city council as their reason for quitting. In San Francisco, nearly 30 officers have left because of the attitudes of everyone from homeowners to the homeless: “It’s . . . nice working at a place where everyone isn’t mad at you,” one former SFPD officer, now in Texas, said.

It’s plain that the protests, which have seen participants assault officers, set fire to precincts, and abuse cops verbally, have made the job worse. Even if one believes that all these departures are individually good—that the retiring cops were incompetent, say, and the resigning chiefs corrupt—it’s hard to dispute the harmful cumulative effect.

The size of a police force and the crime rate are strongly linked. Research consistently finds that increasing the number of officers on the streets cuts crime, with one analysis suggesting that from a cost-benefit perspective, AmericaÂ’s streets are likely under-policed. When cops get pulled off the beat, crime goes up. One study of Dallas P.D. data linked a 10% drop in presence to a 7% increase in crime.

Fewer cops likely also means more police misconduct. After all, the remaining officers must work longer and more stressful hours, and tend to grow more sympathetic to using force compared with less-stressed colleagues. Research has found that fatigue predicts an rise in public complaints against cops: a 13-hour rather than 10-hour shift significantly boosts their prevalence, while back-to-back shifts quadruple their odds.

Don't forget every state is prominent republican .... but we - ahh lost