I was listening to a business podcast the other day and they were discussing the issue for many police departments across the nation was just finding enough staff.
There are shortages in many large cities and small towns even with low 6 figures of pay.
They discussed the long hours, lack of support, extra scrutiny of the job, the risk of injury and loss of life, combined with the co-worker shortages making it tough to find people.
They didn’t get too much into a lack of justice or too much of it. Depending on the situation. (Many on social media will discuss how they abuse their authority and then at the same time demand more extreme measures against people caught doing things on video. I know I’m guilty of this too.)
At the end of the day like many sectors they aren’t getting the best of the best and certainly not enough staff in general which I suspect makes it even harder to deal with misconduct issues when there is no one to replace the officers in question, especially in small towns that are already short.
GED or not their beggars situation is only going to get worse not better potentially leading to more of the wrong types being employed.