Black Lives Matter, murderous attacks on police officers across the country, the threat of losing a job and going to jail if one makes a mistake, the refusal of major sports figures to recite the Pledge of Allegiance or to stand for the National Anthem, and the constant barrage of negativity emanating from the White House, press and media... all are having a negative effect on recruitment of new police officers. Cities that used to see 400 or 500 potential recruits show up for a recruiting notice are now seeing 70 or less.
The result is that the number of officers in many towns and cities is actually on the decrease, meaning that the public is at increasing risk of violent crime. The situation is now being referred to as "The Ferguson Effect."
It is indeed ironic that the very neighborhoods being adversely affected by the decline in cops are those neighborhoods calling for the persecution of law enforcement personnel.
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