High court offers bonuses, debt relief to lure police hires – By Mark Sherman (Associated Press) / Feb 2, 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court police officers last fall staffed a table at Washington’s armory, where runners picked up their numbers and T-shirts for the Army 10-Miler road race. The officers were promoting an entirely different kind of competition, seeking to recruit new officers in a tight employment market.
High court personnel also are showing up on college campuses and military bases to try to fill some of the many vacancies on a police force that’s charged with protecting the nine justices and the majestic marble building.
The struggle to find new officers is similar to staffing shortages facing police departments across the country. But it comes as the court copes with a rise in threats against the justices, including last year’s arrest of an armed man outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house, following the leak of the draft abortion opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
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