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Blue cities that lost historic numbers of police officers beginning in 2020 have yet to recover due to far-left, anti-police policies, a top leader of the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) said.

"Police officers aren't stupid," Joe Gamaldi, the FOP's vice president, told Fox News Digital. "They realize that their far-left city councils and mayors will throw them under the bus at any opportunity."

He referenced several cities where staffing numbers have fallen "off a cliff" since 2020, including Chicago, New York, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

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