• karlthemailman
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    1 year ago

    Serious question, what is the right number of officers for a city that size? 1 officer per 400 people or so doesn’t sound very low to me.

    • SangriaFerret@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      NOPD’s stated goal is 1600, a ratio of 1:227 persons.

      The actual ratio is 1:385

      Cleveland, similar in size to New Orleans, has a ratio 1:310. They also state that they are suffering from a serious police shortage.

      By comparison:

      NYC has a ratio of 1:166

      Chicago 1:180

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        1 year ago

        1:100 seems insane. I live in a community of 10,000 people, and we don’t have anything close to 100 people working in the RCMP. MAYBE 20-30, including support

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          Just checked our major urban centre in Canada, and it’s around 1:450. As a comparison, that makes New Orleans (1:385) pretty well staffed.

          Would be cool to find data covering major urban centres across the world for comparisons.

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              And NYC is wildly over-policed.

              I swear, some people have never met a societal problem they didn’t want to throw a cop at. Meanwhile we have more cops and prisoners per Capita than most of the world, funny how that works…

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          It’s statistically extremely unlikely that non of those 100 people are criminals. One of them is probably a secret cannibal, or on heroin, or whatever.