Well, this is alarming. 2,516 officers have turned in their badges at NYPD so far in 2023, and with all the cuts New York is being forced to make, due to the migrant crisis, I think this will only get worse.
Don't even get me started on anti-cop sentiment. It's been up since the George Floyd psyop back in 2020, even before that.
A total of 2,516 NYPD cops have left so far this year, the fourth highest number in the past decade and 43% more than the 1,750 who hightailed it in 2018, before the pandemic and crime spikes hit the city, NYPD pension data show.
The number of cops quitting before they reach the 20 years required to receive their full pensions also skyrocketed from 509 in 2020 to 1,040 so far this year — an alarming 104% increase, the data show.
The years of departures and lack of replacements are now taking a toll, forcing the cops who remain on the job to work "inhumane amounts of forced overtime," Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry said.
More than 40% of these retirees left before their pension came due. And that's saying something. Many of these officers are leaving because of the long hours, and now the hours are about to get even longer. So you tell me what's going to happen next. I'll go ahead and meet you right back here in a year's time with an even larger number of retirees.
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Officers typically work 20 years or more to collect their full pension, which can equate to 50% of their final average salary.
One police officer, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution, told The Post he plans to leave the job this summer when he hits 20 years.
"I keep in contact with the guys that I was in the police academy with and we all have the same notion," he said of his 2004 class of 2,400. "I think maybe 95% of us are planning on leaving."
The weary officer said the workload at the whittled down NYPD is already crushing cops, and things will decline further now that the city put the kibosh on the next five Police Academy classes, as part of planned budget cuts announced by Mayor Adams on Nov. 16.
The drastic cuts will reduce the department to just 29,000 cops by the end of fiscal year 2025 — the lowest level since the mid-90s — and come amid a slew of city-wide belt tightening. The mayor has blamed the the city's multi-billion-dollar migrant crisis.
Yeah, remember this?
Destroy New York City indeed. Adams said at the time,
Every community in this city is going to be impacted. We got a $12 billion deficit that we're going to have to cut every service in this city is going to be impacted.
We're seeing the impact of this now, in real time. It's not some joke about migrants; it's a real world problem, and it could've been avoided.
However, it's not simply the migrant crisis and the budget cuts that are causing these early exits from the force.
[T]he ex-NYPD officers tell him they were "afraid to make arrests" because of the anti-cop climate in the Big Apple, and when they do make a collar, it's "what's the point?" and "we're shoveling sh-t against the tide" because the bad guys are right back out on the street.
The exodus began after Minnesota cop Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd on May 25, 2020, triggering nationwide protests and calls to defund the police. Anti-cop hostility, bail reform, and rising crime have fed into frustration among the NYPD rank and file.
Assaults against NYPD cops have skyrocketed by more than 25% this year, police data obtained by The Post last month revealed.
Attacking police is cool now, so you tell me what you would do if you were a cop.
On top of this, don't forget all the Israel and Palestine protests these guys have to monitor, along with all the other hip protests going on these days.
This trend is worrying, and it will only get worse.
Cheers to all the cops who stayed on the force. You're much more brave than we give you credit for.
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