With a dangerous job that is not backed up by Democrat city officials, police officers in Chicago have reached the end of their tether.

FNC: “Chicago Police Department staffing numbers reached the lowest in recent history at the end of March, as more than 300 uniformed members had resigned or retired from the department and over a dozen others had stepped down, Fox News Digital has learned.

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CPD employed 11,669 sworn officers as of March 30, down from the 11,983 reported at the beginning of the year and the 12,739 members on the force on Jan. 1, 2021, according to statistics obtained by Fox News Digital pursuant to a public records request. The department saw a staffing uptick at the start of 2020, with 13,299, and a jump the year prior, with 13,486, data show.

There were 12,709 uniformed personnel as the beginning of 2018, and 12,234 sworn officers on the force as of the beginning of 2017, the statistics show. And 2021’s departure statistics showed a staggering increase from prior years, with 678 sworn officers leaving in 2020, 611 retiring or resigning in 2019, 476 in 2018, and 627 in 2017, records show.”

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In March, CPD Superintendent David O. Brown said 2020’s attrition rate was 4%, compared to the 8.5% attrition rate reported for 2021, “which is not officers leaving in droves, but it is quite a bit of a challenge to have that level of increase.

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“But the bigger issue really is the aggregate attrition that occurred because of the pandemic’s restrictions on class size in 2020,” he said during a press conference. “In addition to that, we did have an outbreak of COVID-19 in our police academy in the summer of 2020.

“So, a couple things happened in 2021,” Brown said. “What happened is that we really thought that this would be an ongoing challenge in the impact of what many called, ‘Generation resignation’…not just policing, but in other professions.”

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Chicago FOP president John Catanzara, Jr., said in April that it would take “at least five to 10 years to recoup the losses in manpower in police forces across this country, Chicago specifically.

“I mean when we’re looking at 7,800 retirements or departures, resignations and younger officers leaving for other departments in comparison to two or three hundred recruits coming through the door in a given year in the process,” Catanzara told press. “That is not a sustainable number, and it’s gonna make these streets less safe for a long time to come, even if you flip the switch today.”