The exodus of officers out of the New York Police Department continues, uninterrupted.

These brave men and women in blue get grief from everyone. The people above them have demonized them, and bad apples in the public treat them as if they were fascists.

Things in New York have never been perfect but law and order really went haywire during the George Floyd riots and the COVID lockdowns. Suddenly, looting became a regular sight and the police weren’t allowed to do their jobs.

Is there any wonder why so many of them are leaving?

The New York Post reports:

NYPD exodus continues as cops feel ‘squeezed from every direction’

Former NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell stepped down amid a steady stream of New York’s Finest beating her to the exits, according to troubling new data obtained by The Post.

Through June 30, 648 officers quit before retiring this year — a 22% spike from 2021, when 530 left, and an 87% rise from 2020, when 347 quit, NYPD pension data show.

The concerning “voluntary quits” — combined with NYPD recruiting problems leaves the 34,000 uniformed officers “at least 1,200 short,” the police union said.

“Cops are being squeezed from every direction. They are working inhumane amounts of forced overtime. The brass is pushing for more enforcement, while the police-oversight complex is pushing to ruin more cops’ careers,” said Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry, who reps “just over” 21,000 rank-and-file officers.

“Many cops can’t afford to keep taking that risk because the pay is still too low,” he added. “The NYPD will not be able to recruit its way out of this staffing emergency. It needs to make the job livable for the cops it already has.”

Here’s a perfect example of what these people have to put up with.

NYC Council staffer under fire for urging protesters to ‘throw bottles’ at cops and ‘torch’ NYPD vans https://t.co/hHozhZ8gik pic.twitter.com/8FPfy1p5zP

— New York Post (@nypost) July 8, 2023

Eric Adams was supposed to change all of this. He campaigned on it.

So far, he has not delivered.

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A columnis at the liberal journal ‘The Atlantic’ is calling for Joe Biden to step aside in 2024. There are probably more pieces like this one coming in the future.

The more worried the Democrat Media Complex becomes about Joe’s chances, the more their talking heads will suddenly realize how old Biden is and how crazy it is to think he can function as president for another four years.

They have no love for Biden, he has just been useful to them. Once he is no longer considered useful, they will toss him aside like an old newspaper.

From the Atlantic:

Step Aside, Joe Biden

… Biden presented himself, correctly, as a decent, experienced, and entirely normal politician. He may even have saved his country. Americans owe him a profound debt of respect and appreciation.

He also has no business running for president at age 80. I say that with considerable feeling, being in my late 60s and knowing that my 70s are not far off. I am as healthy as any late-middle-aged person (admittedly, I cringe at the word old, which tells you something right there) can be.

But I know that at this stage, I do not have the energy I had a decade ago. I forget more things, and if my body does not hurt when I wake up in the morning, a little voice in my head asks whether I am dead and do not yet know it…

President Biden is 80 years old. If he gets reelected, he will be 86 by the time his term expires. He will have spent, at the end of that time, nearly half a century as a senator, vice president, or president, positions all calculated to inflate one’s self-image.

As president he has surrounded himself with former aides and dutiful technocrats—no peers who can look him straight in the eye and say, with the gravitas born of expertise and self-confidence, “Mr. President, I profoundly disagree.” Perhaps this is what he has always done, but it is particularly striking now.

Jazz Shaw of Hot Air calls out the author of the piece for leaving out a few important details:

We can, perhaps, forgive Professor Cohen for his failure to comment on Biden’s disastrous performance in office. He does, after all, come from deep in the heart of the liberal university system. He is also clearly able to ignore the growing body of evidence that Joe Biden and his family have engaged in decades of corruption and money laundering, potentially leaving him compromised when it comes to foreign adversaries. All of these facts should prove sufficient to give Uncle Joe a nudge toward the door. What comes after that, though?

The left only cares about retaining power. If Joe Biden threatens that, he will be history.

Will he even make it to the 2024 election?

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