Police Force In Asheville (NC) Won’t Respond to Theft Calls - Crime Rate Soars By 750%
The Daily Mail reports the department will also forgo answering fraud and trespassing calls. APD Police Chief David Zack cites the “protests against law enforcement” as one of the factors that led so many officers to step away from the job.
The Asheville Citizen Times notes that “the APD officer attrition rate, formerly one per month, jumped to 7.5 per month in the four months after local protests set off by Minneapolis police murdering Black resident George Floyd.” And even after the highest profile protests waned the APD continues to see an attrition rate of roughly six officers a month. As a result, the APD now has “only 167 of its 238 sworn officer positions filled.”
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