After decades of overspending on law enforcement, our nation’s police forces have now grown so large there’s simply no way they can keep themselves fully staffed. So, they’ve resorted to cannibalizing each other, poaching officers from neighboring departments. And Oakland residents are left to pay the price tag of training cadets who ultimately go on to work elsewhere, or out-of-towners whose records of conduct are difficult to unearth.
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