Group Says Low Salaries Force Police Exodus
By ELIZABETH SOLOMONT, Special to the Sun | January 25, 2007
Low police salaries have forced 1,769 officers to quit over the past two years, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association said yesterday.
In the same period, resignations increased 42%, growing to 902 in 2006 from 635 in 2004, union officials said.
"The 1,769 fully trained officers who quit during the past two years could staff nearly a dozen New York City precinct houses," the union's president, Patrick Lynch, said in a statement. "They NYPD and the city of New York have a serious problem. They can't keep the police officers they have and they can't recruit enough good quality candidates to keep staffing levels up."
