Bingo. The Memphis PD need 2,300 new officers, they can’t get them. 1) you must live in Memphis, no one wants to. 2) You have to have no felonies...Half the Black Populations have them. 3) must be black 4) we won’t have your back in a shooting 5) income is below poverty and you technically have NO retirement plan. 6) you are a open target for the gang banger’s. 7) raises are few or low. 8) teachers get better raises and your department is the first cut during budget talks. Teachers are last. 9) you can’t even live in safer parts of the County, just Memphis where there is NO safe living space.
After 9/11 the military was accused of overlooking serious crimes for the same reason; they couldn’t attract enough “normals”.