To avoid shrinking their police departments, agencies across the country have significantly changed how officers do their jobs.
"First and foremost, we are providing for the safety and education of our members. Supplies can be scarce as a crisis unfolds, but we are doing our utmost to ensure personal protective gear is in the hands of the members of our department," Esposito said in an email to USA TODAY.
“Until we get to a point where we can put a mask in every officer’s hand, we had to change our protocols and delineate those types of calls to our specialized response teams,” Guglielmi said. “We have gotten cooperation from our health department, but they really just didn’t have the ability upfront,” Colina said. “We have had officers tested. Not all, but some. The issue becomes the length of time to get the results back.”“My fear is when it gets to a point where we don’t have enough ,” he said. “We’re going to have officers that are going to be ill. The amount of interaction is inevitable.
Many agencies have asked the public to report minor violations, including some property crimes, online. Officers are asked to issue citations or summonses for nonviolent crimes, in part to not add to populations in jails, where social distancing is not an option and hygiene products are limited.
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