13 days, 22 murders

Yeah, I mentioned teachers as leaving the profession.

 

It’s not a weasel. Are college professors quitting in droves? I think not.

Police aren’t quitting in droves for the specific reasons retail workers are. You don’t generally become a police officer because it’s *a* job - which is what most of retail is. You become one because you want to do, or think you want to do, that specific job. When people quit at nearly double the rates they had in the previous year, there might be something essential about the calling that’s changed that’s worth noting.

The story says as much. It’s a good story - from the NYT and everything.

 

Executives quitting in record numbers.
Affluent Americans Rush to Retire in New ‘Life-Is-Short’ Mindset

 

I don't have a NYT subscription. Are they quitting because they can no longer bust skulls with impunity?

 

I was at a backyard poker tournament a few weeks ago. Two cops there. Get a few drinks in them and Jesus H. Christ they are the biggest fucking whiners I have ever heard.
They were out of the tournament, so I have to listen to them in the background.

GEORGE FLOYD WAS HIGH, YOU KNOW THAT, RIGHT???
THEY DON'T LET US POLICE ANY MORE!

Nobody wants your half ass policing, anyhow. Just arrest some crooks, and take your gold-plated retirement at 52.

 

And yet …

Pandemic Toll: More Than Half Of College Faculty Have Considered A Career Change Or Early Retirement

And I’ll pause while you tell me this is just a survey and continue to duck the question asked earlier as you continue to hold a candle for those poor misunderstood police officers who are so maligned for minor misunderstandings while we really should be thinking about how hard their job is or how minorities also commit crimes and how teachers needed to suck it up during the pandemic and stop crying about getting covid.

 

lol
So we have established that retailers are quitting. Teachers are quitting. Executives are quitting. College professors are quitting.

But the cops are a special case.

 

I guess we’ll see if they do. We’ll know soon. If so, I’ll be wrong.

 

Its almost like the pandemic affected every profession. Not just cops.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/06/17/record-workers-quit-pandemic/

 

I think lots of industries can be special cases, can’t they, each with their own reasons for doing things or not doing things?

And then there’s impact. Sanitation workers who go on strike in a city have a greater impact than, say, a group of retail workers at Old Navy in a city. Likewise, police. As the story mentions, it takes a year to train police officers, so when they left in Asheville abruptly, it creates a gap.

Finally, the thread isn’t about everybody quitting across many industries. It’s about a rise in violence and a sharp decline in police enforcement. Anyone who’s been around here long knows what I think about cops having guns, and what I think in general about gun control. I’m far more in the due process model than the crime control model. Yet, at the moment, a lot of people are dying, a lot of cops are leaving, and it’s of interest to me.

 

The city of Asheville pays their starting cops $37k. Holy crap.

 

No wonder you get douchebags and bully’s. Do they just hire the local bouncers?