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"On top of her hiring practices, Taylor drew additional fire from the local police union for supposedly breaking campaign promises to beef up the ranks of the Tulsa Police Department when she crafted a budget that only included funding for 20 new police academy graduates.
Such was the rationale for the grade submitted by Fraternal Order of Police President Darin Filak.
"I'd give her an 'I' for 'Incomplete,'" he said.
"She made several promises about hiring additional officers and making public safety a priority, and we're still waiting for those promises to be fulfilled," Filak explained.
The 20 new hires, he said, won't be sufficient to maintain then-current ranks of 814 sworn officers by offsetting the force's attrition rate of 2.2 officers per month.
The Mayor, however, said those were the number of academy seats recommended by TPD representatives, and that the 2.2 attrition rate is a vast improvement over the 3.4 officers the force was losing per month last year.
Other members of Tulsa's law enforcement community aren't quite as patient as their union president and gave her a 'C.'
"Morale is horrible (on the police force)," said one officer, who didn't want to be named as he gave his boss such a mediocre rating.
"Morale is at an all-time low from her lack of backing us and lack of positive feedback, plus I've never seen a Democratic mayor who was so anti-union in my life," he added."
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