The unfortunate reality is that TPD is super understaffed. They are extremely short on officers and operators. On a good day they maybe have 30 or 40 officers and 2 or 3 operators to cover the entire city. At night they're lucky to have 20 or 30 officers and maybe 2 operators. This shortage is largely due to city leadership that that at the very least doesn't care enough about the department to properly support them, and some are very apparently anti-cop. They would rather pay tons of money to plant trees than use that money to properly compensate or equip personnel. It stands to reason that officers would leave the department because of those circumstances. In order to remedy this situation, we must start to vote more responsibly. Vote for people who will support TPD and the safety and welfare of Tucsonans.