Major blue city police force flees, staffing hits critical all-time low
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The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has been facing mass officer departures in recent years. It hit a record low in December 2023.
"I’ve never heard of anything that low," the business manager for the St. Louis Police Officers Association, Joe Steiger, told the Post-Dispatch. "When I started back in 1995, there were closer to 1,600 officers, and now they’re down under 1,000. That’s just crazy." Megan Myers is an associate producer/writer with Fox News Digital Originals.
The police department has dropped annually since 2020, according to SLMPD data. There were just over 1,200 commissioned employees at the start of that year, but dropped to 1,198 in January 2021, and finally to less than 1,130 last year, Fox News previously reported.
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