I read with dismay the article lamenting the decline in municipal police officers and the lack of new recruits (“Interest in local police work drops in Western Pa. despite jump in state police academy applicants,” Feb. 7, TribLive). Gee, I wonder why that is. It couldn’t be the result of being forced to take an experimental vaccine (city of Pittsburgh). I doubt it’s because officers don’t like having frozen bottles of water and urine thrown at them (the “summer of ‘love’ ”). Maybe people are too scared to put their lives on the line every day for those who do nothing but demonize them (George Floyd).
Perhaps it’s because the mayors and DAs don’t back them up and allow many of the criminals they arrest back onto the streets to do it all over again. Lastly, it might be because they’re afraid to defend themselves in a bad situation because they might end up in jail.
Other than that, I got nothin’.
Trudy Olsen
East Huntingdon