Applicants, not recruits. Apples and oranges. Urban PDs have been moaning about being understaffed while kneecapping actually graduating more because they are gorging on overtime. Same with public works. Remember the HN outrage with the Muni worker making $400K? They have all their cake and eat it too.
An 800K San Franciscans have been clammering for community policing for decades but it never happens. Because PDs don’t want that.
This has been the state forever:
http://sfappeal.com/2012/04/understaffed-sfpd-is-nonetheless...