Manpower Crisis?

Who would have though this could happen!?!?!

• [...] About 950 of the more than 5,750 people hired by the Chicago Police Department since 2016 no longer are on the job. Their average time with the department? Not even three years.

  [...] Many have moved on to other police jobs. But nearly 90 have been fired or resigned while under investigation. At least another 21 have died, including seven who were killed in the line of duty and two shot to death while off duty; four who died by suicide; four killed in off-duty accidents; and four as a result of natural causes.

  Of the officers who left the Chicago Police Department since 2016, the Sun-Times found that 320 now work for other police agencies, mostly in the suburbs. Almost 90 moved to the Chicago Fire Department, something that police veterans say rarely happened in past generations.

  City and state employment figures don’t account for possibly hundreds more Chicago cops who’ve moved to out-of-state police agencies in states like Florida, whose governor has been personally involved in recruiting officers from Illinois and New York.

Who could have seen this coming? 

(besides an "insignificant" blog, run by coppers, who were sounding the alarm on this over a decade ago....why would anyone listen to people working within the system for almost three decades?)

Thank goodness Frank Main "uncovered" the crisis!

He actually had two articles running under his byline yesterday. The other was about young cops dying or getting fired at increasingly troublesome rates:

• (long story about a nutjob who shouldn't have been hired in the first place....)

  The findings underscore a staffing crisis that affects nearly every facet of the Chicago Police Department’s operations. With far fewer people applying to become cops, experts say Chicago can’t afford to be as picky as in the past in screening out marginal candidates who might cause problems after they’re hired.

Yeah, we and dozens of our readers warned that lower hiring standards was going to result in untold numbers of scandals across the board, ranging from bribe taking to Summerdale-style burglars to gang infiltration to murders.

Lo and behold, Frank Main "discovers" what we all knew, predicted and warned about. He really ought to signing over part of his check to us.