vendredi 16 avril 2010

Head Count

  • Grade D-1 Number of Officers
    Step 1 255
    Step 2 157
    Step 3 604
    Step 4 595
    Step 5 449
    Step 6 2,782
    Step 7 2,472
    Step 8 1,352
    Step 9 775
    Step 10 323
9,764 Officers as of 01 January 2010.

How many retired yesterday? 120? And how many left in the previous three-and-a-half months? Another 50? 80?

Leaving aside the arguments of "you have to count detectives, D-2 spots, white shirts, brass, etc.," and assuming the numbers on the medical roll or light duty are close to true, we're easily under 8,000 blue shirts, a far cry from the 11,500 assumed for full staffing.

The thin blue line is fraying. Rapidly. Our comments are alive with tales of the entire 003 District running one-man units on midnights and 011 downing six of fifteen beat cars each night. We are at the crisis point and the bosses at these CAR meetings saying they don't want to hear about "shortages" is like petulant first graders sticking their fingers in their ears and yelling, "La la la I can't hear you!"

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