This is what happens when you cut pay and benefits. Cops will go elsewhere to the greener fields. Dallas needs to do whatever it takes to make their department more attractive to officers. I see these rookies only staying a year or so then moving on to better paying departments.Bitter Clinger wrote:Well, in Dallas...
Source:the (police) department’s goal is to answer the most serious calls within 8 minutes. The department’s response time is currently just over 8 minutes. However, response times for priority two calls, which include domestic disturbances, now average almost 22 minutes.
Dallas police have lost 244 officers this fiscal year. The department is on track to lose well over 300 this fiscal year.The department currently has about 3,177 on staff including about 100 rookies that are in the academy. It’s about 500 officers fewer than the department had six years ago.
Police officials are concerned the department will soon be at that 3,000 officer tipping point and the department won’t be able to keep up with the rising call load.
“The problem is you don’t have enough officers so it’ll take longer for us to respond to crime,” said Mika Mata, President of the Dallas Police Association. “Crime will obviously shoot through the roof. Violent crime is already rising. The public needs to get ready. It’s going to get worse.”
Overall crime is down about 4.6 percent through the first part of April. Property crime is down about 6.1 percent.
But violent crime was up about 2.2 percent, driven mostly by rises in the city’s aggravated assault numbers.
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