https://nypost.com/2022/06/11/nypd-cops-on-pace-to-quit-retire-in-record-numbers/

NYPD exodus: Police on pace to quit, retire

in record numbers

New York Post, by Dean Balsamini

Posted By: Ribicon, 6/11/2022 4:23:44 PM

More than 1,500 NYPD officers have either resigned or retired so far this year–on pace to be the biggest exodus of officers since the statistics have been available, The Post has learned.(Snip)The 1,596 total is a 38% spike from the same period in 2021, when 1,159 cops called it a career, and a staggering 46% climb from 2020, when 1,092 left the force by the same date. Anti-cop hostility, bail reform, and rising crime have fed into frustration among the NYPD rank and file, according to one NYPD officer who recently fled for greener pastures at a Long Island police department after 6 1/2 years