Did anyone actually read the article? The Amherst PD is losing officers to lower paying departments because the police feel devalued and are working in what they consider to be an anti-police climate in town. Direct quote: “They’re seeing what’s been said and written about them, and it’s affecting them.”

The 70,000 students number that OP uses above is wrong but either way anyone that went to UMass can’t deny that the police have their hands full with off campus parties and the bars in town, on top of their regular policing work. I don’t live in Amherst but if I did I’d be concerned about this.

Maybe this is asking too much for Reddit but I feel like we can acknowledge that this is an actual issue, but do so without throwing around Fox News culture war BS like “woke mob” etc.