Despite the city's recent efforts, San Jose, a city of roughly one million residents, still has one of the smallest police departments of any major U.S. city.
The short-staffed police department had 1,063 sworn officers as of Aug. 4, according to the department, including 24 recruits in field training and 41 recruits in academy training.
"Seeing that high number of washouts in that particular academy now is worrisome because some drop during the academy and then another chunk drop out during field training," Saggau told San Jose Spotlight. "You're hoping that number doesn't exceed 30%. It looks like a class is going to be north of that, which is problematic."
Saggau said the slow slog of recruitment is a reality born out of years of anti-police rhetoric. He said the police union is in favor of alternative response programs to all kinds of nonviolent calls, which could help recruitment, retention and response times, particularly to violent crimes. Chandra Jacquez's father was shot and killed by a San Jose police officer in 2015. Today she works with community organizing group Silicon Valley De-Bug, a nonprofit focused on criminal justice reform. Her job focuses on helping local families, Santa Clara County's 988 crisis hotline and TRUST field response program for mental health nonviolent emergency calls.
The police department's vacancy rate has jumped to 9.4% -- in part from the addition of new staff positions to be filled over the next two years -- up from 2.56%, the city reported last August.
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