Ray Bottenfield, a former Santa Monica College Police Captain who retired to Hewitt, Texas, says it has become increasingly difficult to retain or recruit officers in California due to lack of support from the state. Pictured here receiving the Medal of Valor from Barack Obama in 2016
Hundreds of
California cops are fleeing to
Texas to escape 'soft-on-crime' policies they say have made their jobs 'pointless', DailyMail.com can reveal.
Rank-and-file officers up to department chiefs have hit out at state legislators, claiming a succession of 'anti-law enforcement' policies have made their work impossible.
Overworked and unsupported, they have instead taken up jobs in Texas and other states that are seen as tough on
crime.
Evan Leona, 38, who ditched his job as a detective in a multi-agency gang unit in Fresno, California, to work for Denton Police in Texas, in 2022, said
he had met 'more than a hundred officers' in the Dallas / Fort Worth area who had fled California.'There are five officers who have come from various agencies in California on my shift alone in Denton,' he told DailyMail.com.
'The justice system just works a lot better here.'
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