A department report produced for Tuesday's City Council meeting estimates that with current attrition and hiring, the number of sworn staff will drop from the current 1,010 down to 988 by July, which would mark the first time since 1985 that the force steadily fielded fewer than 1,000 officers. That same model projects a sworn staff of 949 by July 2017.
The report buffets that by laying out the department's hiring goals, which would lead to modest staffing gains by factoring in three annual police academy classes of 45 cadets, a 50-percent increase over the currently aspired classes of 30. Before the current outflow of officers started in 2008 with recession-driven austerity measures, the department historically approached its 60-cadet capacity.
But the past two academy classes have fallen short of even 30 cadets, fielding 23 and 22 cadets respectively.
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