Too few Dallas cops, too much work could slow Chief Eddie Garcia’s crime plan | Opinion
Eddie Garcia, chief of Dallas Police Department, during a press conference in Dallas on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, to announce the arrest of a suspect in the salon shooting.If he had his druthers, Dallas Police Chief Eddie García would have at least 3,500 officers under his command. He has slightly under 3,100 officers, and the department hasn’t had 3,500 officers since 2014.
The shortage could worsen quickly. García says 27% of the department is eligible to retire. He calls that a “staggering” percentage and says adding officers is “a number-one priority.” But with attrition outpacing hiring for most of the past decade, the current goal of hiring 250 officers a year — each of whom will require at least 18 months of training to evolve from an academy trainee to a fully-trained patrol officer — is likely to net an increase of only a few dozen officers.
The city must do more to keep valuable police officers on the force past their retirement eligibility date and encourage retirees to rejoin the department as a sworn peace officer or to take office jobs to free another officer to patrol. Promotion, transfer and scheduling policies need to be reviewed and impediments to retention removed. Already, Dallas has reduced academy time for officers hired from other departments to 12 weeks from 36 weeks to ease recruitment.
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