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Police officer hiring in US increases in 2023 after years of decline, survey shows

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“I don’t think it’s all about money. I think it’s about the way people perceive their job and feel they are going to be supported,” Wexler said. “You have West Coast departments that are paying six figures, but still seeing major challenges in hiring.”

Our country has paid a heavy price by giving into wokeness.
 

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“I don’t think it’s all about money. I think it’s about the way people perceive their job and feel they are going to be supported,” Wexler said. “You have West Coast departments that are paying six figures, but still seeing major challenges in hiring.”

Our country has paid a heavy price by giving into wokeness.
Stop posting stupidity...."wokeness"...has nothing to do with this article or what is being said in it.

After George Floyd, the US lost a lot of police officers. That should not be a surprise. Nothing to do with funding cuts; everything to do with those people leaving.

They are "struggling to attract and keep" officers.
 
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In my town, it's to protect schools from school shootings.
The district has irs own rapidly growing police force.
Our gun-obsessed society makes this necessary.
It's not guns, it's the enabling of criminals. Much of our educational system is not giving underprivileged kids a chance, and so many end up as criminals. We need to promote family and responsibility.
 
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Much of our educational system is not giving underprivileged kids a chance, and so many end up as criminals.
That's because you keep strengthenning private schools and pulling funding.
 
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It's not guns, it's the enabling of criminals. Much of our educational system is not giving underprivileged kids a chance, and so many end up as criminals. We need to promote family and responsibility.
School shooters don't have criminal records.

The money needed to be spent on school police forces means less is available to educate underprivileged children.
 
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It's not guns, it's the enabling of criminals. Much of our educational system is not giving underprivileged kids a chance, and so many end up as criminals.
Sounds like more should be spent on education. We should check to see who does what in that regard when they're sitting behind the Resolute Desk. From here: President Trump’s education budget | Brookings

President Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2018 calls for a 13.5% spending cut to education across K-12 and in aid to higher education.
  • President Trump’s budget also proposes a number of significant cuts to programs that fund higher education and that provide financial assistance to low-income students.
  • Pell Grants—federal financial aid for higher education— are expected to be funded at a stable rate. But other programs could see cuts. Notably, the federal work-study program, which allows students to pay their college tuition through part-time jobs, would be cut in half under Trump’s proposal.
  • If the federal work-study program were funded at the proposed level, it would be the lowest level of funding the program has ever received since the Department of Education began to administer it in 1980.
  • The Trump budget also proposes cuts to career and technical education, which could potentially put a higher burden on state policymakers to make up those funds.
  • The proposed changes to higher education funding raise concerns from critics that college could become less affordable to those who most need assistance.
 
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Sounds like more should be spent on education. We should check to see who does what in that regard when they're sitting behind the Resolute Desk. From here: President Trump’s education budget | Brookings

President Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2018 calls for a 13.5% spending cut to education across K-12 and in aid to higher education.
  • President Trump’s budget also proposes a number of significant cuts to programs that fund higher education and that provide financial assistance to low-income students.
  • Pell Grants—federal financial aid for higher education— are expected to be funded at a stable rate. But other programs could see cuts. Notably, the federal work-study program, which allows students to pay their college tuition through part-time jobs, would be cut in half under Trump’s proposal.
  • If the federal work-study program were funded at the proposed level, it would be the lowest level of funding the program has ever received since the Department of Education began to administer it in 1980.
  • The Trump budget also proposes cuts to career and technical education, which could potentially put a higher burden on state policymakers to make up those funds.
  • The proposed changes to higher education funding raise concerns from critics that college could become less affordable to those who most need assistance.
It's like throwing more money at Joe for the border--it will just be used to bring in more illegals. So too money will flow to the schools with bad teachers and poor discipline. School choice is needed, so if parents want to they can send their children to a school where the kids can learn. Right now money has been poured into schools with poor performance. Joe Biden is notorious for his opposition of black children being bused to white schools. Give these children a chance, they should be able to attend goods schools. Schools need to quit teaching DEI and focus on math and English.
 
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It's like throwing more money at Joe for the border--it will just be used to bring in more illegals. So too money will flow to the schools with bad teachers and poor discipline.
Then your solution is to cut the amount of money for education.

Brilliant. Just brilliant.
 
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And lax enforcement, but this thread isn't really about "white collar crime" is it?
Sorry, your right, that post was unnecessarily nit picky. It's just that I happed to be reading recently about white collar crime and had it on my mind.
 
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It's not guns, it's the enabling of criminals.

A big part of the reason everything boiled over after Freddie Grey is that society had, for too long, enabled criminal cops.

You and many other “law and order” conservatives seek to enable criminal cops. For all of your anti-government rhetoric, you’re eager to cede power to the least capable, least trained, least accountable armed branch of it. But I suppose it doesn’t matter if it’s only the poor and minorities who suffer.
 
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In my town, it's to protect schools from school shootings.
The district has irs own rapidly growing police force.
Our gun-obsessed society makes this necessary.
You really think that's it? That more people are becoming cops because the schools are hiring them?
 
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School shooters don't have criminal records.

The money needed to be spent on school police forces means less is available to educate underprivileged children.
There is a kernal of truth in that. School shooters generally don't have criminal records. But less money to educate under privileged kids? I wasn't aware that it cost a public school more to educate an under privileged kid.
 
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