NEW YORK (77WABC) — More than 1,500 NYPD officers have either resigned or retired this year alone.
524 cops have resigned and 1,072 have retired as of May 31, according to NYPD pension stats. That’s on pace to be the biggest exodus of officers since the statistics have been available, this according to the New York Post.
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.
One NYPD officer told the Post that anti-cop hostility, bail reform, and rising crime have fed into frustration among the NYPD rank and file. The officer took a job with a Long island police department after 6 1/2 years with the New York’s finest.
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