Louisiana GOP Gov. Jeff Landry has declared a state of emergency due to a police officer shortage.

Landry’s executive order issued Thursday lifts limits on how many new employees Louisiana sheriffs can hire and on payroll increases for their departments.

Landry, who previously had a career in law enforcement, said that police departments in the state are experiencing record-low employments “resulting in increased crime and less public safety.” As of July, sheriff’s offices statewide were down 1,800 deputies, Landry said.

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    9 months ago

    Is this just political theater or is this guy planning to recruit brownshirts into the police force?

    This is somehow reminiscent of how the nazis came to power, including the milktoast reporting by mainstream media. If they continue to inject their brand of fascists into the system they’ll slowly gain more and more power and win.

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      9 months ago

      Well, crime statistics are gonna be low if there’s no one to report crimes to

      Edit: y’all are insane, I’m not taking any sides around here, it’s just straight up a fact lol

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        9 months ago

        You can’t just come onto Lemmy and state the objective truth, it’s against social policy.

        Have an upvote.

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            9 months ago

            I was banned from lemmy.world completely for asking about taking action against a fellow mod posting and Advocating for literal nazi policies.

            So that’s cool.