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Law enforcement agencies are seeing the same drop off in potential employees everywhere, according to Alan Barcelona, president of the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association and Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 77.

"It's huge. We are experiencing it ourselves," he said. "The California Alcoholic Beverage Control, for example, is authorized for 145 agent positions and is currently down 40 agents."

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