I dont know how representative this is but it is something to think about and worry about.....I was reading that in New York a lot of retirement packets have been turned in, these are often guys who could have retired before but did not, probably because they love being cops, which probably means that they are great cops. It is not just the number of cops we are losing it is the quality that we are losing. Which gets back to what Bret has said many times...."When we hammer cops like we are who is going to want to be a cop? The people who turn up for the job and stay on the job are going to be exactly the people we should not want in the job (paraphrase)".

Our police forces are being murdered, you should put some thinking time into who is doing it, and why.