"It's complicated," Mike the Cop said June 1 when asked about the state of the job for NYPD officers a year after the murder of George Floyd and the turbulent, sometimes-violent protests on city streets that followed.
"We finally got new people for the first time in a year," with the recent graduation of two classes totaling 847 rookie officers from the Police Academy. "But the New York City Police Department is very shorthanded right now. Enough people have retired or moved on or resigned, and the new people aren't enough to make up for the ones we lost. We're running fewer [patrol] cars than we ever have."
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