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Consequences, Part II

 

Ralph Boyd asked an excellent question in the comments. 

 

"Then does a future non-appearance lead to a warrant that is enforceable?"

 

Answer:

 

 Failing to Appear at the criminal citation date, the court issues a Cite-in-Lieu of custody warrant, meaning the wanted person, when next arrested, recieves another criminal summons telling them to appear at a future court date. If they fail to appear at that court date, another Cite-in-Lieu warrant is issued and so on.....

 

 

When You Defunding the Police: The Grand Theft Auto Edition

 

 

In September  903 cars were stolen in the city.

In August, 805 cars were stolen. 

 In 2020, the night number of cars stolen in month was 658.

 

 

Bleeding Out

 

Per a member of the city council, the department is losing twelve officers a month to retirement and resignations.

 

 

September Seperations

 

Twelve officers left the department last month.

 

Traumatic Incident Threshold

 

To break the barrier on the traumatic incident barrier, an officer must go to three dead body calls and/ or child abuse calls. Additionally, they must be the first 3 officers to arrive. 

Calls involving subjects shot or stabbed do not count. Amputations, accidental or deliberate do not count. Occupants mangled in a motor vehicle accident do not count. Violent fights with suspects leaving officers injured do not count. 

The metric only tracks a silver of what is meaningful. 

 

 

 

Thresholds

 

Per the Sgt, I broke the traumatic incident threshold last month and now I am on the Early Warning System for something other than use of force.

 

 

 

 

Flag Burning

 

 

Over the weekend, Antifa pulled off the US flag over the front doors of the Precinct and burned it. The flag had only been there for two months. Antifa burned the previous flag last summer.

 

 

 

Fire's Vests

 

In response to the uptick in shootings in the city, the fire department has ordered 200 ballistic vests to protect their firefighters

 

 

A Social Experiment

 

In 1968, the pond had  800 sworn police officers. The city had a population of 380,000.

Today, the city has a population of 660,000 and there's a million and a half more people with in 30 miles.  We have 783 officers.

Seven officers are leaving a month. 87 more, including possibly me, are looking to retire in July.

It is looking like the city will have arounds 600 officers by August.

 

Planning

 

The department is looking how to deal with the loss of 87 officers eligible to retire next summer. The problem is they do not have plan to retain 706 officers who are not, but are rapidly burning out.