Reduced recruitment potential?

Anyone else notice a reduced pool of qualified applicants for recruitment? I remember when (God I never thought I'd be the one saying that!) if you scored below a 95% on a police Civil Service test you were nervous. You were never guaranteed an interview with a 90%. It seems lately though that we reach further and further down the list to find good applicants.

Our department may have 40 or so applicants with scores of 90 or above. Of these we can lose 10-12 on residency issues (don't get me started). Then the day of the physical agility comes and we get 5-6 no shows. Seriously, you can't even show up? Then the test begins and it never fails we lose a half of whats left on the situps or the 1.5 mile run. So we are down to about 12-15 out of 40. This is sad. Sad at the lack of apparent interest and sad that so many of out 20-25 year old men and women can't pass a simple physical agility test.

I haven't even touched on the interviews, where it seems many of today's young people just see this job as a paycheck. Or worse yet, think they are entitled to the job.

Anyone else notice this trend?