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NYPD recruitment challenges and lowering college credit requirements
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Commissioner Jessica Tisch discusses NYPD recruitment challenges and the decision to lower college credit requirements for new officers.
- Plan to maintain larger cadet classes (over 1,000 officers) to address attrition
- Increasing difficulty in attracting candidates to take the police officer test
- Recent decision to lower college credit requirements for uniform police officers
- Goal to match attrition with hiring in the current year
- Acknowledgment of the ongoing staffing crisis and its impact on recruitment strategies
Yusef Salaam
0:59:34
Over the last few years, NYPD has around 600 officers in each cadet class.
0:59:41
In January 20 in January, the NYPD's class started with over 1,000 officers.
0:59:46
Are you planning more classes of this size in the future?
Jessica Tisch
0:59:50
That is certainly the hope and the plan.
0:59:53
But as I mentioned, it is becoming more and more difficult to get people to take the job or take the test to become a police officer.
1:00:03
And I've mentioned in my testimony a number of reasons why.
1:00:07
As a result of the staffing crisis, we did recently lower the college credits required to become a uniform police officer.
1:00:19
So we are hoping and expecting that that will shake loose additional candidates so that this year we can match attrition with our hiring.
1:00:30
But I believe that had we not made that call to reduce the college credits we would have been unable this year to match hiring to attrition.