Earlier this year, the chief of police in Aurora, Colo., needed to find a few dozen officers to join his force.
The chief, Dan Oates, was 50 officers short to patrol Aurora, a city of roughly 400,000 people just east of Denver. But he knew limiting his search to Colorado would not be enough: Like many other leaders in law enforcement, he has found that fewer people these days want to be cops.
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