Hamstrung NYPD Officers Seek Early Retirement As City Grapples With Crime

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Hamstrung NYPD Officers Seek Early Retirement As City Grapples With Crime

John Dove

The damage done to the New York City Police Department over the last two and a half years is unparalleled and will have repercussions for the safety of the city’s residents for a generation to come.

Back in the mid 1970s, following the layoffs of thousands of cops in the wake of a fiscal crisis, the Police Benevolent Association published and distributed a flier titled Welcome to Fear City filled with warnings for residents and visitors to New York.

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