Chicago Police look to recruit US Marines to combat officer shortage
Fox News
Chicago Police are looking to U.S. Marines to help fill the department's officer shortage, with representatives traveling to Camp Pendleton to recruit veterans.
Michael Lee is a writer at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @UAMichaelLee
The department said they recently hired 50 new officers, but that number still leaves them about 1,300 short of what they need. That reality brought Bulnes and six other officers, all Marine veterans, to Camp Pendleton, Calif. to recruit Marines on their way out of the service into the Chicago Police Department.
Filling the void will not be an easy task for the city's police, with other police departments around the country also facing a shortage of officers following a wave of resignations and retiring officers in the wake of the protests over George Floyd's death in 2020. According to a survey of 172 police departments across the country from the Police Executive Research Forum, resignations are up 40% since 2019 while retirements are up 25%
Joe Sanberg, the entrepreneur and anti-poverty advocate who spearheaded a failed measure to raise California's minimum wage, talked about the ballot defeat.
Officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Buffalo, New York, took a shot at New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's immigration policies while announcing the arrest of a wanted illegal migrant.
President-elect Trump has nominated Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer for secretary of labor as he continues to form his Cabinet.
President-elect Trump has nominated former Fox News medical contributor Dr. Janette Nesheiwat as the surgeon general.
In response to the Biden administration loosening key immigration restrictions, New York City Mayor Eric Adams sounded off on the federal government, saying that Americans are "fed up with our broken immigration system."
NBA players have been put on high alert after star athletes were victims of home invasions that are believed to have been committed by individuals with tied to international crime.
A liberal professor of law at Yale University wrote a New York Times guest essay admitting that the lawfare used against President-elect Trump throughout his career has backfired.
President-elect Trump will take office just as Iran has the potential to become the world’s 10th nuclear-armed state, and it’s not clear if either side knows how it will approach the other.
A Brazilian man living illegally in the Unites States was arrested this week by immigration authorities in a Massachusetts sanctuary city.
Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., plans to introduce a measure to abolish the ATF which then-Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., previously introduced in 2023.
Criminal justice advocates hope to replicate their first-term successes under a second Trump term.