• SangriaFerret@lemmy.world
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    Tbf, NOPD don’t arrest many people anyway. There’s a massive cop shortage, only 944 officers for a city of 364,000 with skyrocketing crime rates. Moreover, they’ve been operating under a consent decree by the DOJ since 2012. They’re overworked, underpaid and under the thumb of the feds so in response they simply don’t do shit.

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      The cops in my city were under a DOJ consent decree for like 20 years, and it didn’t make them any less effective. They’re actually worse now, because they actively don’t give a fuck.

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      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.

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        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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          1:100 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…