re: Austin, TX: "You reap what you sow".

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In the face of an enduring hiring crisis, the Dallas Police Department’s recruiting and retention goals in 2023 boil down to a simple message: 300 cops in, and far fewer out. Their ambitions come as the department — with about 3,077 sworn officers — attempts to make up for recruiting and retention setbacks of the last year. DPD recruited 200 officers the last fiscal year, short of their goal of 250. They expected to lose 205 officers to attrition. Instead, about 236 left.

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