Police departments across the country are struggling with recruitment and retention rates, according to National Police Foundation President Jim Burch.
that police departments are experiencing issues with recruitment and retention. Recruitment has been a problem"for many years," Burch said.
"I think what is a little bit different about it today is, we have a continuing recruitment—I'll call it a crisis. But at the same time, we have an attrition problem," he said. Police departments in several U.S. cities with high crime rates have reported staffing shortages in recent months. Above, two police officers are photographed standing in the plaza in front of The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, on Dec. 11, 2018.The NPF does not have data that draws specific correlations between police workforce strength and crime numbers in specific U.S.
Those concerns come at a time when reports of organized retail smash-and-grab robberies have dismayed many Americans. Though significant attention has been focused on retail thefts in California due to a handful of high-profile incidents in the Los Angeles and Bay Area communities, retail industry leaders have toldChicago placed third on a list of the top U.S.
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