News5 Investigates: What's happening with CSPD's staffing? 

03:10 I drive for Uber here in the Springs fulltime, I average 200+ miles a day. Unless I see an officer going to a call - I usually see about 2 officers patrolling Colorado Springs.

Interview the actual worker bees not the freaking higher-ups!

And I thought California was (is) bad....Colorado is on par for first place for, well, you know......

If they actually admitted how many officers are on duty at one time......😂

Wake up, if half that many officers leave, ding ding ding, there must be a problem....and if anyone doesn't know what that problem is, you may want to get a higher education, if that's possible in this country.......but its not hard to see that Colorado has become, well, you know....I didn't need any education to see that....

Im suprised anyone would work there....

Even tho the Springs is a dump, there’s no question that the city has too many police sitting around doing nothing most of the time.

"It's a hard number to really give you" really tells you everything you need to know. Sounds like the chief has no idea what his officers and department are really doing. Seriously, he sounds like all he's doing is making excuses for why more of his officers are not out on the streets patrolling. If only 56% of the officers are out "patrolling", it sounds like they have way too many butts securing a chair than citizen safety. Having a few more officers really won't fix that.

You know entry base pay for CSPD?

Born & raised in CS, left for the Free People's Republic (for now) of AZ in '78. Never came back due to the WAORCA locust swarm that landed in CO during the past 25 yrs and ABSOLUTELY RUINED the state.

Numbers show EVERYONE has an employee shortage...he have these kids entering the feild that have had everything hand to them on a silver plater their entire lives they dont think they have to work!

Wild Midwest

Be frank, most of this stems from local policy, expectation, and that they feel naked without QI. In great part because they know, that even if objectively correct in their actions, this department will penalize them and refuse to support them in the courts.

Qualified immunity ended and now they are liable for violating people’s rights. So maybe they’re leaving because the tax payer no longer foots the bill.

Pay more, pretty simple. Stop requiring college degrees.

Well, my my my, they just can't fill Lt Joe Kenda's shoes. Hell, even he migrated to Virginia years ago.