'Catastrophic Situation' Grips Police Departments as Cops Quit in Droves Saying 'It's Not Worth It' [More]
My bet is most have their 20 years and full pensions in. I also don't see where it accounts for those short of that getting jobs in "friendlier" climes.
In any case, look for standards to lower and abuses to rise.
[Via Mack H]
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That's exactly right.
I've been following this for a few weeks.
In unionized states, instead of '25 and done' these cops retire early and STILL get their generous pensions.
As for recruitment problems, why should anyone be surprised.
Police apparently aren't the only ones having trouble attracting quality personnel. That article would get a C- in many middle school English classes.
That's an interesting comment, Anon. Care to provide some specifics? I ask because I pasted the article into Word, and neither Microsoft's check nor Grammarly detected any issues and a readability consensus from seven different online analyzers produced this result: "Grade Level: 11
Reading Level: standard/average.
Reader's Age: 15-17 yrs. old (Tenth to Eleventh graders)"
Not a problem, David.
Those software products you mentioned are better than their equivalents were even 5 years ago. Still, they're not going to help you with homonyms. In this case "hurdle" should probably be "hurtle."
Similarly they're not going to help you with "your/you're", "there/their/they're". Nor are they going to help you with sentences with a left out verb or part of one when the grammar parser has already found what it thinks is the main or only one. As in "officers are leaving" would fix one sentence where the original text "Many of those officers leaving with decades of experience." is a sentence fragment. There are two more similar examples in the article.
There's also the misplaced and/or missing punctuation. But this post is already TL:DR.
Also beware the helpful typing assistants included on our "smart phones". A co-worker once texted me he was running late because while helping out at the "Erections Department" they had run out of tie wraps.
I don't even like thinking about a connection between erections and tie wraps.
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