Marshall Project: “Since last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests, there’s a popular refrain echoing through urban police precincts, rural sheriff’s offices, and city halls everywhere in between: officers are fleeing America’s police forces in big numbers.”
“According to federal data, those worries are unfounded. Last year, as the overall U.S. economy shed 6% of workers, local police departments lost just under 1% of employees after a decade of steady expansion… That’s about 4,000 people out of nearly half a million employees in municipal police departments and sheriff’s offices nationwide.”
“State and federal law enforcement departments actually saw a slight increase in the number of employees.”
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