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From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center

The Armstrong and Gettyshow

Sometimes you know as I go through the news the day after day and night after night

I start to see patterns and it's remarkable over the last several days

The number of stories that mention a shortage of police

Wall Street Journal mass shootings weekend violence prompt U.S. cities to step up safety measures

and we can get into that a little bit

But one of the, well their lead is police chiefs and mayors are working to bolster public safety amid rising gun violence, spade of other crimes

etc. Police departments across the country stretched thin by retirements and difficulties recruiting

are being asked to do more with fewer officers that are talking about enhanced training and that sort of thing

In Phoenix the police chief said our department has contacted schools in the city to tighten coordination in the event of an attack

and plans over the summer to offer active shooter training for churches, businesses, other institutions

gun homicides in 2020 searched through the highest level in a quarter of a century and that increase is continuing this year could well be worse

and they get into a bunch of different examples of cities all across the country

most of them again young men in disputes that they settle with firearms as opposed to the school shooting type lunatic

but I started clicking around because I'd seen in the New York Post, NYPD Exodus, police unpaced equipment retire in record numbers

some 524 cops have resigned, 1072 have retired as of May 31st

that's this year it's a 38% spike from the same period last year

why well they say anti-cop hostility bail reform rising crime fed into frustration among the NYPD rank and file

the anti-cop hostility we've talked about that fair amount

so is this George Floyd thing?

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