re: What is the future of the police officer profession?

The same number of people want to be officers. But now they are more careful about where they want to work.
Bossier Parish has lots of police applicants every year. It's a pro police environment and pro police city and parish govt.
Across the river Shreveport is hundreds of officers short and scrape the bottom of the barrel for applicants. The police station is physically falling apart from disrepair and half the city govt hates cops.