By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Police officers nationwide are turning in their badges at record rates amid budget cuts, policy changes and anti-brutality protests. An estimated 5,300 officers quit or retired from the New York Police Department last year, 200 or more cops have left the Seattle force, and in the nation’s capital, the union reports that the 3,700-strong Metropolitan Police Department is down 300 badges since the D.C. Council enacted sweeping police reforms last summer. “Officers are leaving at an alarming rate, and crime is spiking in a lot of different areas,” police union chairman Gregg Pemberton told The Washington Times on Tuesday.
In Baltimore, the department has lost nearly 300 officers since last year, leaving detectives “overwhelmed with their caseload because they, too, are short-staffed,” said the leader of the local Fraternal Order of Police..............To Read More....
My Take - The "Inevitability Factor" is when reality reaches it's apex. Now I just hope all these citizens of these cities who've been demanding less police and more accountability by the police to the misfits who are working to defund them enjoy their "Inevitability Factor". As for me....Schadenfreude!
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