NYPD, the largest metropolitan police force in the United States, continues to see an alarming increase in retirements with or without waiting for the pension, a deficit that could worsen in the face of the city’s announced fiscal crisis alleging the lack of resources from the White House to confront the massive arrival of immigrants.
This year As of October 31, there were 2,516 police resignations in NYC, of which 1,476 were retirements (with a full pension) and the rest (1,040) without waiting for that benefit. In previous years the total numbers were 3,260 (2022); 2,459 (2021); y 2,933 (2020).
Even Keechant Sewell, the first woman in history to lead the NYPD, resigned in June. Officers usually work 20 years or more to collect their full pension, which can be equivalent to 50% of their final average salary, he said. New York Post.
“I think maybe 95% of us are planning to leave.”
Experts fear the exodus will get worse because The city plans to cancel the next five Police Academy promotions, reducing the number of students to the smallest it has been in decades.
The lack of police obviously has an impact on public safety, creating a vicious cyclesince many of the resignations would be linked to the greater workload, the alleged “impunity and frustration” in the face of penal reform and including the physical and verbal attacks on officerswith or without uniform.
Last month, a Hispanic lieutenant was beaten by two armed men in a Subway station in The Bronx. Two days later, another NYPD officer was beaten while trying to stop smokers on the subway, an event that was captured on video. In both attacks the police officers were uniformed.
In August of last year, an officer suffered a fractured skull during an off-duty violent attack and robbery in the Bronx in broad daylight. And in January 2022, two young Hispanic police officers were shot to death while responding to a domestic violence incident in Harlem.
“All New Yorkers should be scared.”. It’s not just the Metro. “You should be petrified walking down the street if this is what happens when people are so emboldened.” This is what Louis Turco, president of the Benevolent Association of Lieutenants (LBANYPD), following the November incidents in the Metro.
This year’s 2,516 resignations through October are already the fourth highest number in the last decade and represent 43% more than the 1,750 in 2018, before the pandemic and crime spikes affected the city, data from NYPD pensions.
The number of police officers who resigned before reaching the 20 years required to receive their full pensions also skyrocketed. from 509 in 2020 to 1,040 so far in 2023, an alarming increase of 104%.
Years of departures and lack of replacements are now taking their toll, forcing remaining police officers to work “inhuman amounts of forced overtime,” lamented Patrick Hendry, new president of the Benevolent Association (PBA), the largest municipal police union in the world.
“Workload is an important factor that keeps people away from work,” said the union leader. “If the NYPD is going to survive these staffing reductions, it can’t just keep pushing cops for longer hours.” The union has proposed a flexible schedule that would have officers work more hours on fewer days.
A police officer, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals, told the New York Post who plans to leave the job next summer when he reaches 20 years of service. “I keep in touch with the guys I was in the police academy with and we all have the same notion,” he said of his 2004 class of 2,400 officers. “I think maybe 95% of us are planning to leave.”
2023-12-01 17:47:00
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