CV NEWS FEED // New statistics show that thousands of New York Police Department (NYPD) officers tendered their resignations in 2023 alone.
The numbers are especially alarming to many observers in light of the fact that the city is currently suffering from both an unprecedented migrant crisis and a crippling crime rate.
The New York Post reported that, according to department pension data, a total of “2,516 NYPD cops have left so far this year.”
This, the Post confirmed, is “the fourth highest number in the past decade and 43% more than the 1,750 who hightailed it in 2018, before the pandemic and crime spikes hit the city.”
The data showed that many officers are resigning despite being ineligible to receive full pensions. Per the Post, that number “skyrocketed from 509 in 2020 to 1,040 so far this year — an alarming 104% increase.”
This means that of the cops who quit this year, 41% were unable to obtain full pensions – for which the NYPD requires 20 years’ service as a prerequisite.
According to New York City Police Benevolent Association (PBA) President Patrick Hendry, officers’ “workload is a leading factor driving people away from the job.”
“If the NYPD is going to survive these staffing reductions, it cannot just keep squeezing cops for more hours,” Hendry added.
The Daily Wire noted that the “mass exodus” of officers “comes as the police department faces drastic budget cuts due to the city’s illegal migrant crisis.”
“Mayor Eric Adams announced the budget cuts earlier this month,” The Daily Wire reported:
The NYPD will be slashed to just 29,000 cops by September, 2025, the lowest level in over two decades. The next five Police Academy classes have also been canceled as part of the cuts.
Also this year, the NYPD lowered its fitness standards to bring more women onto the force, a decision the mayor reportedly had to approve.
The New York City government’s website states that the NYPD has “approximately 36,000 officers and 19,000 civilian employees.”
>> ADAMS SAYS BIDEN ‘ABANDONED’ NYC <<
Last week, Adams blamed the Biden administration’s lack of attention to the city’s migrant crisis for his recent $4 billion budget cuts.
“DC has abandoned us, and they need to be paying their cost to this national problem,” the mayor stated at a Brooklyn town hall. “This is unfair what we’re doing to migrant asylum seekers, and it’s unfair what we’re doing to everyday taxpayers.”
For several months, Adams has been sharply critical of President Joe Biden’s immigration policy. This is despite the fact that the two Democrats were reportedly once close. Also, Adams has in the past defended New York City’s status as a “sanctuary city.”
According to The New York Times, “Nearly 140,000 migrants have checked into the city’s intake system in the last year and a half; about half that number are living in shelters today.”
Another factor in the “mass exodus” out of the NYPD is the far-left “Defund the Police” movement, which has pervasively spread throughout many of the nation’s heavily Democratic cities in the past few years.
“Many in law enforcement say [police] departments are suffering from flagging morale thanks to a wave of anti-police sentiment that peaked with the police killing of George Floyd in 2020,” The Daily Wire indicated. “In some cases, city councils have slashed police budgets, leaving some police chiefs feeling abandoned as they are stretched thin trying to keep residents safe.”
Reports show that the sharp decline in police officers is not a problem unique to New York City.
“Resignations among cops were up 47% last year over 2019, and retirements were up 19% among 200 police forces surveyed by the Police Executive Research Forum,” continued The Daily Wire.
With fewer officers patrolling the streets, New York continues to grapple with rising violent crime.
“Two women have been slapped with hate crime charges for allegedly attacking a Jewish person who confronted them on the Upper West Side for tearing down posters of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas,” The New York Post reported on Monday.
