The UK government announced on Wednesday that it achieved its 2019 manifesto commitment to recruit an additional 20,000 police officers by March 2023, bringing the total number to nearly 150,000, the highest ever recorded.
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Former New York City Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly has proposed that requiring a four-year college degree for all police officers could reduce police abuses.
With more resignations than at any point in the last 20 years and better options elsewhere, the NYPD is struggling to recruit and hold onto officers.
While Denver’s population is 54 percent white, white people made up less than 50 percent of applicants since 2018, as other groups started to apply more, matching up to the demographic makeup of the city’s residents.
The country is facing a multi-industry labor shortage, and cities are starting to build out outreach and offer bigger financial incentives to recover from early pandemic hiring and recruiting lulls for police officers.
Qualified applicants are also eligible for existing recruitment perks, including a $6,000 housing stipend.
Early Thursday morning, Portland police declared a riot outside the county justice center. People ignored an order to disperse, throwing Molotov cocktails at a federal courthouse.
In a message to rank-and-file officers obtained by The Baltimore Sun, Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3 President Sgt. Mike Mancuso suggested the officers had to look out for themselves because the department wasn’t doing it — instead failing to recruit enough officers to outpace attrition and forcing existing officers in the department to work overtime shifts.
Better racial representation in our police forces is important, but a would-be officer’s residence can also have a major impact on making on improving a department’s legitimacy in a community, argue two researchers.
In a problem that reflects a national trend, Hartford, Conn., cites the robust economy and tarnished reputation of law enforcement in a dearth of applicants for police jobs there. Meanwhile, Baltimore is preparing to launch a campaign to attract a new generation of recruits–“millennial, local, minority, female”–to fill 90 officer vacancies.