BATON ROUGE — Baton Rouge Police won’t hold a class for potential officers next month because not enough people expressed interest.
Police spokesman Lt. L’Jean McKneely said other agencies can provide additional pay for less stressful work, leading to a downturn in the number of people interested in working for BRPD. The agency has 698 positions, but 156 of them aren’t filled.
“You’ve got smaller agencies and larger state agencies, where you can work less hard and make more,” McKneely told The Advocate newspaper. “Our call volume is way higher than them. We deal with a lot more trauma and anxiety, that we’re being faced with on a day-in and day-out basis.”…