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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: NYPD Blues: Vet cops leaving in droves, New recruits hard to find and Morale at an alltime low | ||||
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| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 08-06-2001 @ 11:23 AM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | August 6, 2001 -- THE NYPD is fast approaching a dangerous crossroads - littered with poor morale, massive retirements and lagging recruitment - that threatens to undermine a decade of historic crime reduction. How the next mayor and his police commissioner handle this extraordinary convergence of hazards will determine if New York remains America's safest large city or retreats back into the days when it was considered an ungovernable nightmare. For the first time in memory, a litany of separate factors are coming together, even as the city experiences yet another double-digit drop in crime this year. Here are the problems: * Morale has hit bottom following overwhelming public criticism of the NYPD. The department is still reeling amid allegations of racial profiling during "stop-and-frisks." The accusations erupted after several high-profile shootings and brutality cases, including those involving Amadou Diallo and Abner Louima. * Salaries continue to run well below those of neighboring departments, such as in Suffolk County, where an officer's annual pay starts at $42,496 and tops out at around $87,000, compared to $31,305 and $55,268 respectively for New York's Finest. The situation was exacerbated because Mayor Giuliani forced the police union several years ago to accept a contract that included two years without pay raises - which further lowered morale. * A record-setting exodus of cops - starting with a staggering 3,000 officers this year - is shrinking the world's largest department for the first time in two decades, after a crime-weary citizenry and elected officials pushed for its expansion. And the problem is likely to get worse before it gets better: An even larger number of veteran cops and detectives, hired in the early 1980s after a series of layoffs, are reaching the 20-year mark, where they can retire with half-pay for life. The 3,000 cops retiring this year will take advantage of generous pensions, fattened by a number of overtime-fueled, drug-fighting initiatives. The outgoing cops represent about 30 percent more than last year's 2,314 - which was 50 percent higher than the 1,569 cops who quit in 1998. By 2004, one of four cops will be eligible to pack it in. Police say the exodus is fueled partly by the intense criticism leveled on cops for any misstep. "You make a mistake - an honest mistake - and they kill you," a top official said. * Recruitment has been such a struggle that a recent graduating class fell 361 short of the 1,589 funded slots allocated for last September. More recently, the number of applicants has fallen to a point where the NYPD spent $10 million on a failed advertising campaign, waived the $35 application fee, and sent teams of recruiters to military bases and college campuses to lure potential cadets. The situation is considered so serious that union and department officials privately fear the NYPD may have to lower standards as a way to replenish the ranks. Perhaps most disturbing for the next occupant of Gracie Mansion is the fact these problems occurred when crime declined to 1960s levels under a mayor who, by all accounts, offered unconditional support to cops in every way, except at the bargaining table. | ||||
| Cluster F | posted on 08-06-2001 @ 11:31 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Too many people blame the cops for everything...they think "oh their just cops, who cares?" But as you can see, this is what happens when everyone critizes the cops. Hell if i were them, id just say let the people kill each other, fuck protection. | ||||
| Sloatsburgh | posted on 08-06-2001 @ 11:36 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | People bitch and bitch and bitch. They bitch at the cops for coming after a crime was commited ("Where the hell were you when this wwas going on?"), then they don't help to cops solve the murders/crimes, then they bitch when there is a police presence in their neighborhood, now they will soon bitch when the police just stop going where they are not wanted. Fuck all of them. Let them kill themselves. Why should we sacrifice the best of us to save the worst of us? Thank You Guillani. Guys can't shoot guns when they are wacking off to a porno.  220, 221, whatever it takes. Showering Carmine with paternal love. | ||||
| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 08-06-2001 @ 11:52 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Does the cult movie Escape from New York come to mind for 2004? | ||||
| o&aswallow | posted on 08-06-2001 @ 11:56 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Could you work with Cipowitz day in, day out? NYPD does an excellent job, it's about time the city step up and start paying for the quality they are getting.  o&aswallow Recognized His Destiny Early. Too Many Hotties, Not Enough Horny Goat Weed Now accepting foster children applications. Cash only, no checks. Email at [email protected] Frat Guy has rented one of the foster bedrooms as of 7/21. Yes ladies, another college boy is in town for you to ravage. It at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed. - Curly Howard. Pennsylvania resident, but original NYC listener. | ||||
| mikeWOW | posted on 08-06-2001 @ 8:21 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | right now im 19 and i am a police cadet- as of now i get paid pretty good and get 12 college credits so i do it but because the pay is low when you become an officer i am not sure if i want to do it. they will have a ton more recurits if they incresed the pay "i hate people that dont get it!" | ||||
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