It is strange indeed when 26 of those are occurring in a span of 7 months and there's no indicator of this behavior previously (despite economy). To be honest especially in todays economy, unless they were forced out, these individuals would be keeping their jobs, not leaving them.
If you equate that and no other positions similar in nature and in CA (first responders, Fire Chiefs, Officers, etc) that is exposed to the same calculations you provided per state, per city, per County, the math becomes somewhat nullified.
I am one whom knows how numbers do not and cannot tell the whole story when the story is driven by human behaviors.
At any rate, it's all speculative and again, curious IMO.
Oooo, and I didn't use the word disagree. I'm working on that :-)
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With the exception of the six all from CA the rest of the list doesn't seem that strange. Especially considering the number of sheriffs and police chiefs in the country. And CA is bankrupt.
counties are in 48 of 50 states. An average of 62 counties per state. 48 times 62 equals 2,976 sheriffs on average. one elected sheriff per county.
Police chiefs are more city bound. there are 273 cities with a population of 100,000 or more in the USA. That's 273 police chiefs right there.
That's not including smaller cities with independent police departments of which I can think of 2 such cities in my county alone. each with their own police chief.
26 out of thousands is not an unusual number of resignations. especially considering there are 350 million people in the USA alone.
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