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Law enforcement funding, recruitment, retention challenging

by CHERYL SCHWEIZER
Staff Writer | January 6, 2025 3:30 AM

OLYMPIA — A proposal to allocate money to help hire additional law enforcement officers would address one part of a complex challenge — but recruiting isn’t necessarily the biggest challenge for Columbia Basin law enforcement agencies. That was the reaction of local law enforcement agencies to the proposed legislation. 

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