Here is another report about the difficulty the police departments are facing for hiring new officers.
I think this is causing police to re-examine their recruiting and hiring procedures. What will policing look like 10-20 years from now?
Berkeley PD has many unfilled positions and has lost experienced officers to other agencies in recent years, something that rarely happened before, according to this article. The agency has a distinctive history going all the way back to August Vollmer, and was the “go to” agency in northern California for many years. Current and departed…
— Read on gcordner.wordpress.com/2018/12/22/berkeley-not-so-special-any-more/
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