Post-pandemic resignations shift demographics of Chicago Police Department before Mayor Johnson makes any changes – CBS2 (Chicago)

The Chicago Police Department is now younger, less white, and more Latino, according to data from the city's Inspector General and public records requests made to the Department of Human Resources. There was a sharp, 206% increase in voluntary resignations from 82 to 251 from 2020 to 2021 - and that may be at the root of why recruiting has stalled. Most of those resignations were officers in their mid-30s, far younger than officers who quit before retirement in the past.