NYPD Cops Are Quitting and Retiring at Record Pace

Who can blame them? NYPD on pace to see record 4K-cop mass exit by year's end: pension fund stats

“New York has become Dodge City — and those who can are getting out of Dodge. And not just the cops,” said Michael Alcazar, a retired NYPD detective and an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

For New York’s Finest, surging crime, bail reform, anti-cop hostility, the defund-the-police movement, and battles over the city’s vaccination mandate are signs that it’s time to go.

Fewer cops means more overtime, which is already out of control. More overtime, won't make more cops stay.

“I have no regrets about leaving,” [an ex-NYPD officer who took a private-sector gig after only seven years on the force] told The Post. “From what I hear from the many officers I still speak to, the NYPD has actually somehow become worse in just the few months I’ve been gone. I didn’t even know that was possible. The job has become unsustainable for a lot of people — financially, mentally, everything about it.

“Officers want to have pride in what we do, but pride only goes so far when you’re constantly being beat down and treated like a child by the department’s incompetent and ignorant leaders and disrespected by the public on a daily basis. When the whole system is working against you, when you can’t cover your bills, and never see your family, you start to ask ‘Why am I doing this anymore?’”

If you think things are bad in NYC today (they are) wait until there are significantly fewer police officers. The pipe-dreams of the Progressives notwithstanding, that will not make things better.