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Employment of police officers in the U.S. will increase in 2023 after years of decline, a study shows

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police departments across the U.S. are reporting an increase in officer numbers for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2020 killing of George Floyd, which a study shows led to a historic exodus of officers.

According to 214 law enforcement agencies that responded to a survey conducted by the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), more sworn officers were hired in 2023 than in any of the previous 4 years, and fewer officers resigned or retired overall.

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Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers sparked nationwide protests against police brutality and increased scrutiny of law enforcement.

As more officers left, many departments needed to reallocate strained resources, taking them away from investigative work or coping with quality-of-life issues equivalent to abandoned vehicles or noise violations, to deal with the rise in crime, and in some cases, shortages meant slower work. police officers claim that response times are reduced or limited to responding only to emergencies.

“I just think the last four years have been particularly difficult for American policing,” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of PERF, a nonprofit police think tank based in Washington. “And our study shows that we are finally starting to turn into a corner.”

However, in line with Wexler, individual departments are recovering at different rates, noting that many still struggle to draw and retain officers.

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Overall, the career “isn’t completely eliminated yet,” he said.

The Associated Press left phone and email messages with several unions and police departments asking about hiring increases.

The study shows that while there have been more sworn officers in small and medium-sized departments than in January 2020, staffing levels in large departments are still greater than 5% below their employment levels then, even with year-over-year increases in 2022– 2023.

The study also found that smaller departments with fewer than 50 officers proceed to face higher attrition and retirement rates.

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Wexler said the survey only asked about numbers, so it’s hard to say whether these officers are leaving for larger departments or leaving the career altogether. He also found that smaller departments, which make up 80% of agencies nationwide, were underrepresented in the responses PERF received.

Many larger departments have raised officer pay or began offering incentives equivalent to signing bonuses for knowledgeable officers who’re willing to transfer, something smaller departments cannot really compete with. At least a dozen smaller departments have disbanded, leaving the municipalities they once served counting on state or county police for help.

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However, even some of the highest-paid large departments still struggle to draw latest employees.

“I don’t think it’s all about money. “I think it’s about how people view their work and feel like they’re going to be supported,” Wexler said. “You have departments on the West Coast that are paying six-figure sums but still see significant hiring challenges.”

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In addition to salaries and bonuses, many agencies are re-examining their application requirements and recruitment processes.

Wexler believes some of these changes make sense, equivalent to allowing visible tattoos, reconsidering the importance of past financial problems and faster background checks for applicants. However, he warned that PERF doesn’t support lowering training or candidate standards.

Maria “Maki” Haberfeld, chair of the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, says departments have focused an excessive amount of on officer numbers. He worries that some are lowering educational requirements and other standards to increase the number of officers, relatively than trying to search out the best people to police their communities.

“Policing is a real profession that requires more skill and more education than people can understand,” she said. “It’s not about tattoos or running a mile in quarter-hour. “It’s really more about emotional intelligence, maturity and split-second decision-making without the use of lethal force.”

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Haberfeld also cautioned that any personnel gains made through incentives could easily be erased, especially since officers, including some in combat gear, were seen breaking up protests against the war between Israel and Hamas at universities across the country.

“In policing, it takes decades to move forward and a split second for public attitudes to deteriorate,” she said.

The PERF study showed an overall decline in layoffs of greater than 20%, from a high of almost 6,500 in 2022 to fewer than 5,100 in 2023. However, they’re still higher than levels at the starting of the pandemic in 2020, when several greater than 4,000 officers resigned in all corresponding departments.

As with employment growth, the rate of decline in retirements tended to depend upon department size. In 2023, fewer people retired in large departments than in 2019, barely more retired in medium-sized departments, and increased salaries in small departments. The study found a sharp decline in resignations in large agencies with 250 or more employees and in mid-sized agencies with 50 to 249 officers.

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In addition to increases in pay and advantages, improved retention could be partly attributed to a change in the way some public officials view their public safety departments, Wexler says.

“It was only a few years ago that we moved from public discourse about defunding the police to public officials realizing that their employees were leaving,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any doubt that there’s been a radical change among political leadership.”


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Cassie showed Stills from “Freak-Offs” on the second day in court: “I can’t believe I actually dealt with it”

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The singer and model Casander “Cassie” Ventura returned the next day of the audit as the highest witness of the government in the federal case of sexual trade against Sean “Diddy” Combs.

On Wednesday, May 14, clearly less emotional Ventura dressed in a gray turtle neck dress under a black coat, more in detail more allegations of physical use, sexual assault and claims about potential blackmail, NBC News Reported. She also testified how she was afraid of a 55-year-old tatient rap, which was called notoric drugs with drugs, named “waaks”.

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“Sean would put his hands on me, pushed me … he kicked me,” said the 38-year-old, adding: “These were different times, if we had a bad time or if I was afraid of him, uncomfortable, I would usually leave and go out of the back of the hotel.”

When asked by prosecutors how often they bury them violent and hurt her during “Dziwaki”, in keeping with NBC News, she replied: “Too often.”

His violence against her was limited to “freaks”. In addition to safety materials that the combs shown by throwing ventura on the hotel corridor played in court on Wednesday, she described one other case, three years earlier, which led her to the plastic surgeon to treat her face.

“Sean came in. I slept. He tried to attack me. We entered the main bedroom. My friends jumped on his back, trying to stop him,” she testified.

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At one point, the combs allegedly threw her on the bed frame, and he or she cut her eyebrows on the corner of the bed. Despite the “significant wound”, she didn’t go to the ambulance. Instead, she testified that Combs had protection by taking her to a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills.

According to her, after she wrote a photograph of her injury and said, “So you remember”, to which he replied: “You don’t know when to stop, you pushed him too far.”

“I’m just sorry, I don’t know why I deserve that you can worry less if I was fine,” she replied.

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She also testified that Combs staff were present during many cases of abuse, including drivers, assistants and bodyguards, CBS messages Reported.

. New York Post He informed that the jury from “Freak-off” was presented, causing visible reactions for not less than a number of. During the review, Stills Ventura identified herself and male escorts.

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During Wednesday’s testimony, the R&B singer raised the place where she ended during the first day in court on Tuesday, when she revealed, because it was during their about 10-year relationship, which began when she was 19 years old.

She described how too naive and too inexperienced when she first began to fulfill with him. She also testified that she only agreed to “Freak-off” because she felt pressure and willingly gained his approval. She admitted that she didn’t like every aspect of events.

On Wednesday on Wednesday, R&B singer also testified that the pages would depart her with Utis, mouth wounds with repeated oral sex and stomach problems, said New York Post. According to her, she can be forced to participate even with Utis.

“It was really painful for a long time,” she said in keeping with NBC. “I can’t believe I actually dealt with it.”

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The first day of Cassie as a witness sheets more light on “freak-offs”

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All eyes were on Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, when she took the position of witness on Tuesday, May 13, in a federal loud case of sexual trade against her ex -boyfriend, Sean “Diddy” Combs.

The 38-year-old singer R&B came to court Daniel Patrick Moynihan of the United States in Lower Manhattan in New York, with a wonderful tumor for teenagers, and testified with regard to the controversial relationship through which she was involved with Didda for about a decade, which began when she was 19 and newly signed his bad files for 10-lib, which was his bad concluded for a 10-album offer, 10-colbum offer, every 10-colbum, 10-lb contract, CNNIN NBCAND CBS Reported.

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During her testimony, the singer described the years of alleged physical, emotional and sexual use at Diddy’s hands. She accused the disgraced rap rap of controlling each aspect of her life, from her funds to her musical occupation to the place where she lived, to what she would wear, and ultimately her sexual exploits.

She shed even more light on notorious drugs powered by drugs called “Freak-Offs”, through which alleged Diddy would force Ventura and others to perform sexual activities with men’s sexual employees. In vivid detail she described some acts to which she and others were forced, including he and other sexual employees urine throughout the mouth. The topic of infant oil appeared when she claimed that they’d be forced to devour oil for command and use Diddy, on average to 10 bottles for “freak-off”. According to her, recovering from the parties would take several days, which could last days.

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“(Freak-Offs) became a job in which there was no place to do anything other than to recover and attempt to feel normal again,” she said: NPR.

Pasitals reported that she broke up in tears when she asked what she likes to participate in “Freak-offs” and didn’t answer practically anything.

“I felt quite terrible. I felt disgusting. I felt humiliated,” she said, consistent with CNN. “I had no words to show how terrible I felt. I couldn’t talk about it.”

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Ventura claims that, allowing for one of the precise ways wherein wherein during which during which young she was, when she first entered the rapper’s orbit, she was completely inexperienced in navigating his demanding, brutal nature. She also admitted that at first she really fell in love with rapper and desperately wants his approval.

“I was so young and I didn’t have a vocabulary for some things we talked about. I just tried to understand it, just completely inexperienced,” she said, at NBC.

He also claims that Diddy directly thwarted her musical occupation during her relationship with the music director. Of the ten albums to which it was initially signed, despite the recording of a whole lot of songs, only one ever reached.

Although she settled a civil lawsuit outside the court inside a few hours after she had filed it almost two years ago, her testimony might need been provided by a broader context of claims that Diddy was racketing or conducted a criminal company to take care of up his sexual abuse. Ventura claims that she was intensively handled with members of Diddy’s staff, who handled many things, including funds, destroyed hotel rooms, and even monitored their injuries after many cases of physical abuse.

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Diddy allegedly tried to kill a former boyfriend Cassie, prosecutors say in the sexual trade process

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The sexual trade process for Sean “Diddy” Combs, 55, founding father of Bad Boy Records and the music mogel began on Monday morning in New York with statements opening each the defense team and the defense of COMPS. The trial has already began with unimaginable claims.

According to New York Daily News, In his comments opening US prosecutor Emily Johnson, he shared with the jury that the anger with the former Girl Cassie and the lack of control over her caused him to consider murder. Apparently, trying out that Cassie was dating one other person, Johnson claimed that Diddy called one in all his bodyguards and went to seek for a boy Cassie (at the moment), with a weapon, intending to kill a man.

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“He took the weapon and took his bodyguard – one of his most loyal lieutenants – to wake up one of the employees of the accused in the middle of the night. The accused shouted that he was going to kill a man with whom she was Cassie,” said Johnson. Unable to find a man, Diddy set his view on a brutally assault on Cassa.

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“He did what he did countless times earlier. He beat her brutally. Kicking her in the back and throwing her like Ragdoll. All this violence was not enough, but the accused had to make sure that he would have control over Cassie again. So he threatened her,” the accused told Cassie that he would supply you with the option to publicly release sex with sex when he kept her. Nights of her life. ”

Johnson’s opening remarks developed her plan to share twenty years of violence and abuse of each Cassie (Ventura) and other women who allegedly forced sex against their will, and ruthlessly defeated after they didn’t follow, amongst many other crimes. She also claimed that he had a tight ring of fogeys that were aware and complicity in Diddy’s crimes committee.

Diddy’s lawyer, Teny Geragos, said that Combs had committed domestic violence, but he was not at the trial for it, and the movies and data they receive would show consensual, intimate private relations, but no orders of any crimes.

“We accept the full responsibility that in this case there has been domestic violence. Domestic violence is not sexual trade. I want to say it again: domestic violence is not sexual trade. If he was accused of domestic violence, if he was accused of assaulting, he will not be here now,” said Geragos.

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She added: “sexual trade, prostitution, tribute, these are federal crimes. Fees for various elements. He is simply not guilty of these crimes.”

Diddy didn’t plead all allegations against him, including sexual trade allegation, racketeers, transport of victims and sexual employees in terms of prostitution and all other related numbers. If he’s convicted, he’ll face prison with a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very long time.

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