Newly hired IRS employees will not outnumber police detectives, despite a Instagram post that suggests otherwise.
hat influx of new employees mean the ranks of the IRS will eclipse the number of police detectives employed in the United States?from Aug. 17 suggests as much, showing a photo of a packed football stadium that the post says has a seating capacity of 87,000 — the same number of new employees the IRS should be able to hire between now and 2031.
"There are approximately 800,000 police officers in the entire country, of which about 10% are criminal detectives," words above the image read."Biden is adding more IRS agents to investigate your taxes than we have detectives investigating every crime in the country." This post was flagged as part of efforts by Facebook, which owns Instagram, to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our
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