The NYPD's Growing Retention Crisis and Fight for Support

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Well with us today is uh DEA President Scott Monroe. That’s the Detectives Endowment Association and UH. I’ve asked them to come on this Sunday morning give us an update. What’s going on in his opinion in New York City and what’s going on with the UH, the the NYPD and UH and all of the above. Well,

0:24 what say you, Scott.

0:26 Speaker 2 Well, I can tell you that the men and woman and the Detective Bureau or police officers are working very hard out there, UH, you know, trying to uh do our jobs. You know, it’s very hard to do our job when you have the CCRB civilcom Play Review Board and you have the Diphram Compression bill. You know, very

0:45 everybody’s worried. They’re worried about the type of left wing nonsense that’s going on going forward. You know, it’s it’s it’s just be crazy. We’re really you know, we’re understaff, we’re understaffed, and we all lose people. I have had about four hundred people retire file for retirement to leave this year. I’m waiting for bills in Auburny to be

1:07 signed by Governor Hoko, which I’m hoping she will they were passing the Senate in the Assembly to retain members here at all ranks in the police department. And uh, it’s a little concerning, you know, I’m very concerned about the experience leaving New York and going to work in other police departments and and that’s really what’s what’s going on.

1:27 Speaker 1 And so, you know, is the NYPD dan to an all time low.

1:33 Speaker 2 There’s two thousands more cops Jessica Tish put on since she’s been she’s been on in but you know, the bottom I will always going to say, well low, right, I mean we had I had seven thousand detectors at one time, and now I have about five thousand, you know.

1:47 So it’s it’s it’s a little concerning what’s going on out there. And when you don’t believe in policing, and you don’t have a leader of the city, mayor Mandami believing in policing and leaving on what we do every day, what the men and women do everything, that’s a problem.

2:05 You know. Basically, he was speaking about come come to protest, you know, and you’re you’re telling you’re telling people to come to protest. I’ve gotten about eight or nine detectives hurt out there and during the Knicks and the Soka, you know what was going on with there, you know, working many many hours and uh you’re now you’re you’re

2:28 you’re asking them to come to protests in New York City, you know, and uh during Unga no less Well, it’s it’s gonna be very challenging. And I’m and it’s very challenging. I’m gonna tell you right now, it’s very challenging for the department that Jessica Titius is gonna be a big challenge for how I think this Unger’s gonna be very.

2:48 Speaker 1 Big understood now overall? Uh, is crime down or or do you feel like things are not as good as they we will make it out.

3:03 Speaker 2 To me, I think crime is down. Major crimes are down, you know, shootings are down, homicides are down. I think basically what the real problem is out there, and I’ve been saying it these emotionally to stir people out are out there. We need to find a home for them, We need to help them.

3:22 Speaker 1 And people there used to be twenty eight thousand in Bellevue type institutions, and right now I think there’s only five or six or seven thousand and the other twenty thousand might be homeless in the streets. Who knows, yes, and that’s still a problem.

3:38 Speaker 2 Yeah, Oh, that’s a huge problem. That’s very concerning. I mean, and I think that’s what really, that’s where it all starts. You know, when Mayor Giuliani was here and we had God rest his soul, Bernie carry you know, let me tell you. You know, they took care of that type of that stuff back then, and now it’s kind of went

3:57 to the side, you know. And I think that’s that’s a dangerous part. People that are riding on the trains or down the subway system and you have these mostly to start people, you know, and and and it’s it’s it’s it’s not good. It’s not good. You always gotta be you know, you have to be on your toes

4:14 out there.

4:17 Speaker 1 How many officers, whether it’s your officers and detectives or or foot soldiers and you know, regular officers or or sojeants. How many are we losing.

4:31 Speaker 2 We’ll lose it a lot. Well where I I don’t know that I’m miss John. I’m not gonna tell you I lose the numbers. I know I know what I’m losing. I know the experience that I’m losing. I don’t want to speak for the p BA. I know the p BA is negotiating. I mean, they have to entice people

4:47 to come on this job, qualify people to come on this job. It’s very important, you know. And if you want this job, that’s the big question. Do you want this job? You know you gotta be We police have to get respect again.

5:05 Speaker 1 Just spit in their face and nothing happens to them.

5:09 Speaker 2 Well, I mean, you have people cameras in their faces, Guys with billboards coming to their homes all over you know what I mean, like going after the police for doing their job. People are arrest out in the street, are showing up at our offices, homes. That’s not acceptable.

5:27 We need to do something about that. And that’s why we’re putting some legislation together right now that I’m going to have introduced to the Assembly in the Senate this coming year. And are you.

5:38 Speaker 1 Getting Are you getting some sympathy out of Albany?

5:42 Speaker 2 Yes, but I am getting stuff. We are getting stuff. We’ll have a bill that there’s two bills right now we’re waiting for them to sign. I’m hoping they sign them. The governor science and we are working well with them with with with that. The problem is that the press is not getting the message out there for us, so base.

6:00 What the DEA is doing is we’re spending money and a lot of money out there to basically basically to do our campaign to show why we need this done, and of course to help A W, A, B C and everybody else, some of the some of the other radio stations. The bottom the bottom line is we need

6:17 to get the message out there. And and we’ve been sitting down with a lot of city council people, and and sitting down with a lot of Assembly people and and sending people, and we’re trying to work together and trying to see our side. You know, we got to keep that left that left wing out. We got to

6:35 keep it out.

6:36 Speaker 1 Scott Monroe, Detective’s Dominant Association President, thank you so much for coming on, Thank you for telling us the truth.

6:42 Speaker 2 Hey, thanks for having me well, thanks for having on