https://www.npr.org/2024/04/11/1243982287/fbi-agents-housing-costs
"There are multiple stressors that folks experience," said Caroline Otto, assistant director of the FBI's Resource Planning office. "We have heard very compelling and heart-wrenching stories across the workforce in these areas."
Have they tried not eating food?
They genuinely do not. Any quiet conversation with an off duty cop nets you insight into this. I get that's not something any leftist willingly seeks out but I'm sure there will be at least a few who have had such conversations. The majority of them have genuinely no idea beyond the scope of the training giving to them, which is a page full of random symbols under the title "extremist ideologies", among other incredibly crappy materials.