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   It’s ’23 skidoo.   
      
   New York City cops are resigning at a record-breaking pace this year as   
   the NYPD’s alarming exodus continues, according to new data obtained by   
   The Post.   
      
   “The NYPD staffing emergency is approaching the point of no return,” said   
   Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch.   
      
   The shocking stats show 239 officers tapped out in January and February, a   
   36% spike from the 176 who fled in the same period last year and a   
   disturbing 117% jump from the 110 in 2021, NYPD pension data show.   
      
   That’s the highest number of resignations for the first two months of a   
   year since 250 members quit in 2007 during a contentious contract dispute,   
      
   “The NYPD needs to be rebuilt from the ground up — it’s unfixable in its   
   current state,” a veteran Manhattan cop told The Post.   
      
   “It’s not just politics and poor pay,” the officer said.   
      
   “Precinct cops are being forced to work an inhumane amount of overtime,   
   including on their days off, while being penalized for minor uniform and   
   administrative infractions.   
      
   “Meanwhile, precincts barely have enough personnel to meet the minimum   
   required to safely answer 911 calls.”   
      
   Some officers are so disgusted that the carrot of an NYPD pension isn’t   
   even enough to keep them in.   
      
   At the current rate, 1,400 cops are projected to resign this year before   
   qualifying for retirement — even more than last year’s record 1,297 early   
   exits.   
      
   Incredibly, 21 cops walked away from the job in just a two-day period —   
   Feb. 20 and 21 — to join the MTA, police sources said.   
      
   The Manhattan cop said the department simply “doesn’t know how to manage   
   personnel.   
      
   “Hundreds of cops are being hidden under fake assignments or assigned to   
   headquarters sitting at a desk all day and are considered ‘untouchable’   
   for patrol or enforcement duty because they have high-ranking supervisors   
   protecting them,” he seethed.   
      
   New York City’s Finest are also bailing because of what they consider   
   anti-cop politics, woke bail reform policies that make criminal justice a   
   revolving door and low wages.   
      
   “We are losing cops to better pay and benefits in other policing jobs   
   almost every day,” said Lynch, who reps 22,000 uniformed officers.   
      
   The exodus began after Minnesota cop Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd   
   on May 25, 2020, triggering nationwide protests and calls to defund the   
   police.   
      
   “The allure and luster of the NYPD is gone for now. They need to restore   
   that,” said Spero Georgedakis, 52, a former Miami SWAT team officer who   
   helps recruit and relocate New York City cops to Florida departments.   
      
   Georgedakis, who grew up in Queens wanting to be a member of New York’s   
   Finest, runs ads to coax cops to the Sunshine State.   
      
   “We had four or five New York City police officers reach out to us last   
   week,” he said. “They saw the spots, and we gave them [salary] quotes.”   
      
   Georgedakis said “the standard story” he gets from NYPD cops is that “the   
   job is impossible to do.”   
      
   Alexandre Tilan was a cop in the 72nd Precinct in Sunset Park, Brooklyn,   
   before he decided to leave in May for the St. Petersburg Police Department   
   in Florida.   
      
   The 29-year-old had just six years on the force, nowhere near the 22-year   
   threshold to qualify for a full pension.   
      
   “I’m not surprised at all,” he said of the current exodus.   
      
   As a Florida cop, Tilan said, he has “lower stress, higher pay, better   
   support.   
      
   “I’ve had a few [NYPD pals] reach out to me asking how to start the   
   process,” he said.   
      
   The NYPD saw 3,701 cops retire or resign in 2022, the most since 3,846   
   cops departed in 2002, after the 9/11 attacks.   
      
   In addition to the hordes resigning so far this year, the NYPD has already   
   seen 262 cops retire over the first two months of 2023, a 3% uptick from   
   the 255 for the same period last year and a 7% increase from the 245 who   
   retired in January and February 2021.   
      
   The NYPD’s 33,822 uniformed cops are already 1,208 below the budgeted   
   headcount, documents show, and 2,467 cops short of the 36,289 roster at   
   the start of 2020.   
      
   The stunning numbers were no surprise to a police source who told The Post   
   about a cop who suddenly quit last week with no job lined up.   
      
   “We are having problems keeping and hiring cops,” the source said.   
      
   “I don’t see Suffolk and Nassau [County cops] losing vacation days like we   
   do. More money, less BS. I can’t blame them for leaving.”   
      
   Diane Spencer, a mental health therapist in Brooklyn who lives in   
      
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