To want to become a police officer in Liberal run cesspool big cities like New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Portland, Seattle, etc. Why would anybody want to do it the way things are today. They will not get any support at all. Are they getting less qualified recruits? Just curious.

In LA all you have to be is an illegal looking for work

Not being bright is an asset for a popo under this administration. I know nothing according to Sgt Shultz. Just following orders is the order of the day.

Lots of corruption and easy money to be made

Probably feel they're going to put there money where their mouth is and try to fix the problem.

With DEI, you always get the best!

They are not the brightest lightbulb.

Looks to me like LE is something of a joke. Gas drive offs and shoplifters rarely get prosecuted and when they do no one goes to jail. Home burglary is an exorcise for rookies to do paper work for insurance. When someone does get prosecuted no one goes to jail. Armed robbery, rapists and murderers often get less time than drug addicts. In many many places someone who refuses to get permission to repave their driveway gets a big fine. Guys show up with cameras to get on you tube by walking up to the law without breaking it, get all kinds of absurd LE response rather than being ignored. Somebody arms their self to protect a friends property, gets attacked by armed assailants, and is put on trial for it.

I have no idea how all that stuff came to be seen as normal. LE is no longer about protecting our civilization. Its primary purpose is to generate revenue. Public safety is the excuse used . What is most amazing instead of correcting that nonsense most people want more laws.

They lowered the standards to be a firefighter so women can be firefighters, don't have to carry 100 lb's or whatever but 25, good luck if you need one of them to pick you up and carry you out of a burning house so id imagine to meet quota's it's the same with police dept's. Military has two sets of standards as well for men and women to serve as well.

Being dumbed down has reached new levels now. Most qualified for any job isn't the standard anymore, it's checking off a bunch of box's to ensure your 'diversified'. Why doors fall off airplanes and such now.

Social misfits that can't function at a regular job.

What has changed?

They closed the mental institutions in the 70s. Now they're all just running loose and when they quit taking their meds we have problems.

Quit public hangings?

Release with no bail?

Suffer no consequences?

Etc etc

are most agencies big and small seeing fewer applicants , YES
are they any less qualified , I can only speak for small town applicants , they seem about the same as before just fewer.

having interviewed a several for a small town there are a lot of them who want to help people that is their calling , a uniform is how they see as their way to help people.

will they get burnt out in the city probably , they are caring people in most cases often policing is in their families but not always often they were a somewhat troubled kid who could have gone the wrong direction very easily and a cop made a positive influence in their life and they want be that positive.

remember city people only know cities so that rat race is their norm and they have oddly strong bonds to a city that many would possibly just say to heck with and move away. it is all they know and they love it for a bunch of reasons and want to be apart of making it better.

Also some cops go looking for the action , I know a guy who did just that he was the entry/shotgun man for a rapid response team for 2 years , for 2 years the only time that shotgun left his hands was while he was sitting in the cruiser eating lunch and then it lay across his leg. he got that out of his system early in his career.
I suppose like some young men who pursue the Marine corps they feel a need to be where the action is and that is how they feel is best to find it.

you could ask the exact same question about young people joining the military.
my son has several friends who have joined up as well has his cousin.
in the case of his cousin , family thing his dad was Navy he is navy very similar MOS, he is a green shirt on the flight deck air frame mechanic with ordnance certs and ejection as well as hydraulic and climate control.
as for my sons friends the term lost souls wouldn't be too far off , they slid through HS , the got jobs right out of HS working in factories bored out of their skulls with the mind numbing work , partied on days off maybe a little too hard. one guy basically had no home life he finished HS sleeping on friends couches because his mom moved away with her new boyfriend. he was off to the Navy a few weeks after graduation having it set up since mid senior year.
some have a family connection and a deep calling to serve their country no matter the idiot in the white house.
some see it as a way out of the situation they are in.
others , there are lots of reasons.

Money, benefits, and job security and the brothership of belonging to a union that gets to support and vote in democrats who will give them more money, better benefits, and dare I say, plenty of work.

There are very few applicants for the job nowadays so people are figuring it out. Couple that with lowering standards for the DEI and just needing to fill a hole on paper and we are seeing the result of very poor hiring practices. Been going on awhile now but it's going to get worse...a LOT worse. The cream of the crop has enough sense to do something else and the applicant numbers are reflecting that.

All police depth. lower there standards a 5"1 woman is not going to stop a 275lb man high on meth she will run away.

As I am reading your entry, in my minds eye I see myself and at least5 people I know. Good people have good intensions, but unfortunately many of us find out too late that we didn't see the influence by political ilk. By the time we do become lucid, all we can try is to negate a little of what we perceive is wrong. It usually doesn't work. All I will say is, I tried.

One of the reasons I hung up my duty pelt and Glock. No support from admin. Hung alot of us out to dry. Unless you were in the click.
Doing ADC full time know. Wished I done it sooner. My stress level is nonexistent despite recent family loss..
Sarge

This goes for every field right now, not just LEO. The people that you want to do the job are being forced out or demoralized so they dont want to do it anymore so you're having to expand your net which just means getting less desirable applicants or the most desperate ones.

I bit right. The good ones are leaving but that’s what they want in the above mentioned cities and agencies. Once the good ones are gone they can fill the ranks with their goons. It’s all on purpose