Its happening all over, small towns & big cities, suburban counties, you name it. It wasn't just caused by the aftermath of Brown's felonious assault on Wilson but how that has been allowed to play out is no small part of it. Look Chicago's mayor, Rahm Emanuel who was also an Obama chief of staff. When he's telling people that cops aren't working because they don't want to be the next viral video, its a clue.
Across the profession, management has abdicated its responsibility educate the community. Nyeti's right, DpdG is sooooo right, gawd is he correct.
There's this one agency ... where a few years ago cops could barely get on the air on weekends a few years back, now it's quiet the vast majority of the night. Contacts are way down, arrests ... wut? If one considers the risk of being the next sacrificial lamb and nothing, nothing all at coming from the courts to the crook, why would you?
That one agency always got really solid laterals and could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people who left - nearly always for family reasons. Now? Its hemorrhaging BADLY, supervisors, guys with multiple specialties, new guys off training, they are all leaving.
Yeah, this is an issue. Some places worse than others.