NYPD cops defect to small Connecticut force with higher pay: ‘Morale is horrible’

The NYPD’s loss is Danbury, Conn.’s, acquire.

Six of the 9 cops simply employed by the Connecticut city’s police drive are former NYPD officers — the newest proof of the flood of Most interesting from New York Metropolis to greener pastures, in line with the native Information Instances.

Danbury is a sleepy metropolis 50 miles north of the Massive Apple — with a fraction of the crime price and higher pay for its officers.

The newly minted Connecticut cops will make between $63,900 and $74,400 a yr, in line with a job itemizing for the city at PoliceApp.com. The NYPD’s beginning wage is $42,500, leaping to $85,292 after 5 and a half years.

In the meantime, the common month-to-month value of a one-bedroom condominium in New York Metropolis is $3,925. In Danbury, the common value for a one-bedroom unit is $1,863, in line with the positioning Zumper.com.

Danbury has a inhabitants of about 85,000 folks and noticed one homicide and a complete of 97 violent crimes in 2019, in line with the latest FBI crime knowledge obtainable.

New York Metropolis, with a inhabitants of 8.5 million, noticed 335 murders and 49,124 violent crimes in the identical yr, the info exhibits.

A Brooklyn police officer advised The Submit on Sunday that NYPD cops are going nearly anyplace they assume they’ll discover a higher life.

“It’s unhappy how persons are going to small-town police departments to make more cash,” the cop mentioned. “It’s embarrassing.”

One other NYPD officer with greater than 20 years on the job mentioned he doesn’t see the pattern stopping anytime quickly.

“There’s going to be much more [leaving] as a result of they’ve been with out a contract for seven years,” the officer mentioned of New York Metropolis officers, declaring that present NYPD “morale is horrible.

“As an alternative of [higher-ups] making an attempt to assist police, they’re apprehensive about stickers in your telephone,” the cop mentioned, referring to the latest transfer by the NYPD to mandate officers put stickers on their work telephones to assist the general public see if they’re really doing their job whereas on responsibility or their private units.

“You lock anyone up, and so they’re out the subsequent day,” the supply added, lamenting New York state’s lax bail-reform legal guidelines.

What’s the aim of being a police officer out right here?”