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A new study by several academic researchers indicates a rising trend in U.S. police resignations over the past year, one that appears to have been exacerbated by the Black Lives Matter-led riots and protests that swept the country last year and generated a massive wave of anti-police criticism.
The study , written by University of Nebraska Distinguished Associate Professor of Criminology Justin Nix and University of Utah PhD candidates Scott Mourtgos and Ian Adams, found that within “a large police department in the western US” voluntary police resignations “increased by 279%” following last year’s protests against the killing of Minneapolis resident George Floyd
Noting their model “predicts that resignations will continue at an elevated level,” the researchers urge officials to “be prepared to confront workforce decline and increased voluntary turnover.”
The team undertook the study “because we’d seen all the headlines about cops quitting at higher rates, but hadn’t seen any rigorous analyses,” Nix told Just the News via email.
While acknowledging that the study’s hard data are drawn from a single jurisdiction, he pointed to “journalistic reporting of similar happenings in other jurisdictions, mostly major cities.”
Nix said the issue predates last year’s riots.
“The main thing to keep in mind is that agencies were struggling to recruit and retain officers even before the Floyd protests,” he said. “It’s been a problem since the Great Recession — but the Floyd protests just made it that much more of a problem.”
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Rob O’Donnell, a former detective with the New York City Police Department, said the issue is “no doubt a national trend.” Recently, the city of Minneapolis “only received 150 applicants for 100 open positions, and after initial background checks the qualified number of candidates pool was down to 60-70 applicants,” he said.
“Outside of a livable wage, police only look for one thing: to have the support of those that send them out to do an immensely demanding job,” O’Donnell continued. “Due to recent rhetoric, followed by historically proven bad ideas and policies such as bail reform, COVID criminal releases and activist DAs failing to enforce laws, the support structure has not only rapidly disintegrated, […]
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