The NYPD got a much-needed infusion of blue blood Wednesday when it formally accepted nearly 1,100 police recruits — the largest class of future officers inaugurated in nine years.
Mayor Eric Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch swore in the new class of recruits during a ceremony at the NYPD Academy in College Point, Queens. The 1,093 recruits come at a time when the NYPD is dealing with one of its greatest staffing crises in its history. This year, sources told amNewYork in a report published Tuesday, that “New York’s Finest” have lost an average of more than 300 officers per month due to retirement or resignation, and the department’s headcount of about 33,000 officers is about 2,000 shy of what had been budgeted.
