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Police chief reports staffing buffer, falling crime and expanding 'brain health' therapy program
Summary
Police Chief Booker T. Hodges told the council March 31 the department is currently staffed six officers over authorization but faces projected retirements; crime is down about 8% over three years and the department’s free crisis therapy program has exceeded capacity.
Police Chief Booker T. Hodges delivered the Bloomington Police Department’s organizational update on March 31, reporting current staffing above budgeted levels, multi-year retirement pressure, a recent decline in overall crime and rapid growth of a free therapeutic program the department operates.
Chief Hodges told the council the department currently sits six officers over authorized staffing but that retirement eligibility could remove as many as nine officers across this year and next — four eligible this year and five next — which he said would create shortfalls because it takes roughly 18 months…
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