{"id":1596538,"date":"2022-08-09T11:08:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1596538"},"modified":"2022-08-09T11:09:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:09:10","slug":"police-departments-experience-difficulty-combating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-departments-experience-difficulty-combating\/","title":{"rendered":"Police departments experience difficulty combating"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolice-departments-experience-difficulty-combating%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1596538&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2735904\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2735904\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2735904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/121321_la_cu_of_lapdbadgeap_12142021.jpg\" alt=\"(AP Photo\/Ringo H.W. Chiu)\" width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2735904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(AP Photo\/Ringo H.W. Chiu)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN NEWSROOM<br \/>UPDATED 7:57 AM PT \u2013 TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>Police departments across the country are finding it increasingly difficult to operate due to staffing shortages. While speaking to reporters on Monday, Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell revealed that his department is short 100 officers, despite his city experiencing a near 207 percent increase in homicides since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say the current shortage is being driven by the demonization of the profession in the aftermath of George Floyd\u2019s death and calls to defund the police from Black Lives Matter protesters.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe, like many cities in the country, do have staffing challenges,\u201d said Chief Lovell. \u201cCurrently, we have about 770 officers and we are authorized 882. So, we\u2019re down about 100 officers at the time.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gresham Police Sgt. Travis Garrison said the spike in violent crime and the officer shortage is forcing his department to respond to only certain calls.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cSo right now, because of the spike in violent crime, we\u2019re only able to investigate murders,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe\u2019ll routinely respond to shootings, but if the person is going to survive, we are not going to follow up on that.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, across the country in Los Angeles, LAPD Chief Michael Moore detailed how the department had to disband several specialized crime units due to their own shortage.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cA number of our specialized units have been either disbanded or significantly downsized as a result of the reduction in our workforce,\u201d he stated. \u201cAreas that have been disbanded include our Hope Teams. These are our homeless outreach efforts that were occurring in each of the four geographic bureaus.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite this, law enforcement officials remain optimistic and are calling on their colleagues to continue working.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cThis is going to take years for us to recover from and my hope is that the people that I work with, that they stick it out,\u201d said Sgt. Garrison.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sen-portman-report-on-chinese-snooping-is-a-critical-wake-up-call-for-fed\/\">Sen. Portman: Report on Chinese snooping is a critical \u2018wake up call\u2019 for Fed<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP Photo\/Ringo H.W. Chiu) OAN NEWSROOMUPDATED 7:57 AM PT \u2013 TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2022 Police departments across the country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}