The number of candidates taking the NYPD test has plummeted over 55% in the last eight years, according to the Police Benevolent Association. Current officers cite grueling work conditions, attacks, and excessive complaints as reasons behind the decline. One officer even dissuaded his son from joining the NYPD, encouraging him to join a county police department instead. The NYPD is struggling to fill its academy slots, resorting to contacting candidates from years past.
The number of candidates taking the test to join the NYPD has plunged by more than half in the past eight years, The Post has learned.
“You’re not forced to work every New Year’s Eve and Fourth of July,” the dad said. “You don’t have to worry about getting stabbed, shot and then sued all the time.” Faced with a shrinking pool of prospects, the NYPD has taken the unusual step of reaching out to candidates who took the test as far back as seven years ago, said a source involved in the process. Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, cited “stupid laws” that the City Council has passed that hamstring cops.
State bail reform has also made the job less attractive as cops see the same perps — some of them migrants who cops are not permitted to turn over to ICE — committing crimes and getting right back out on the street, police sources said.Some blame bills passed by Council for the decline, including the chokehold ban and the “How Many Stops Act.”PBA President Patrick Hendry wants the city to find a balance between the laws and the pay to make the job more attractive.
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