Dallas police have lost hundreds of officers are struggling to hire more at a time with fewer people want to be cops. Social justice issues, pandemic problems...
Senior Cpl. Binh Vu places a pin on the collar of newly graduated police Officer Chelsea Boykin after she received her badge during a graduation ceremony for the Dallas Police Department Class 381, at Moody Performance Hall in Dallas, on Friday, July 16, 2022.
includes more than $4 million in financial incentives to entice officers to stay past retirement, along with $4.8 million to hire an additional 250 new officers.national survey of 194 police agencies by the Police Executive Research Forum More recruits today make a conscious decision to be part of a change in law enforcement or society more generally, she said. She added recruits are usually more in tune with global happenings because of social media.
She said the use of drugs like marijuana often disqualifies new applicants, but recently, there’s been a more difficult disqualifier with no easy solution: mental health issues. Additionally, she said, recruits sometimes express fear about negative perceptions about police — particularly with movements like defund the police or protests against police, which are often spurred after people of color are killed by police.Jesuorobo Enobakhare Jr., chairman of Dallas’ community police oversight board, said the city shouldn’t defund the police, but it also shouldn’t arrest its way out of problems.
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