Letter to the editor: Lack of retirement health care hurts police officers

There has been a severe decline in applicants for police jobs. “Defund the police” politicians and other groups, ultra liberal district attorneys, and the liberal media-bashing has definitely had its ill effects.

But one thing that no one talks about is the one thing that has always amazed me. A few larger police organizations allow retirees to carry their family health care into retirement. Most borough, township and city departments do not. Politicians will sweat blood worrying about the entitlement crowd, criminals and illegal immigrants having health care. But for most police officers, after serving their departments for 25, 30 or more years, it’s “thank you for your service, but you and your family are now on your own.” They have to pay for their families’ health care out of their pensions. And that’s the one big crime they can’t fight!

That’s yet another big incentive for people notto apply for police jobs.

Kenneth Minyon

Saxonburg