Opinion: The staffing crisis in law enforcement
The lengthy investigation on the staffing crisis in Southern California law enforcement by Joe Nelson and Scott Schwebke published this spring showed that, with very few exceptions, area police and sheriff’s departments are having a very hard time indeed both holding on to qualified officers and deputies and replacing the ones who leave.
At a very surface level, it might seem like a great time to go into law enforcement. The need is great; pay has never been better — in the past, a cop was never going to see anything like a six-figure salary; the benefits are out of this world; relatively early retirement is available like almost no other occupation in the nation. All of that is easy for those of us who don’t don the uniform daily to say.
A tiny group of Midwest officers committed that crime; during the protests that followed it, you would think that every officer in America, the vast majority of whom serve honorably, was behind it. Who needs that kind of hatred in their work day?
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