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Female LMPD officer claims police, city ignored sexual harassment

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RE: Female LMPD officer claims police, city ignored sexual harassment...

January 6th, 2018 @ 1:07PM (6 years ago)

They can only manage to hire and graduate a fraction of the 100-120 leaving each year. This won't be the last cut to training if attrition stays this high either. The academy will probably be cut by 5 weeks to match DOCJT's 22 weeks in the next few years just to keep enough people on the street to respond to legitimate 911 calls. They won't tell anyone until after it happens, but it's coming unless people stop quitting.

There aren't enough qualified people willing to take the job and stay anymore for $40,000. Unemployment is at record lows, there's little interest in policing among this generation of youth, and other departments a few hours from here are willing to pay much more upon academy graduation.