Over 440 LA County deputies have left this year, as sheriff calls violence, homelessness 'existential threats'

More than 440 employees of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD) have left the job as of the end of April – already over half of the total number of personnel who did so during each year in recent history, Fox News has learned. 

As of April 30, 444 LASD employees resigned or retired from the department, with 308 of them being sworn deputies, according to statistics recently provided to Fox News in response to a public records request. That’s 59 employees more than half of the 770 total personnel who left LASD in all of 2020, the department said Tuesday.  This is an investment that saves people's lives. We have less cops on the street, more crooks, less consequences. As of February, LASD boasted roughly 18,000 total employees, 9,800 of whom were sworn personnel, the department said in a press release earlier this year. The department oversees all of L.A. County, which is more than 4,000 square miles and home to over 10 million people.