Officially, the has 583 precinct officers and sergeants.
The city has 568,380 people.
That's a ratio of 975 people per officer.
With an average of 62 officers on patrol at any given time,
the ratio is more like 9167 people per officer.
With 219,840 calls for service dispatched last year,
that's 377 calls per officer,
if each call required only one officer,
and if sergeants took calls.
The city has 568,380 people.
That's a ratio of 975 people per officer.
With an average of 62 officers on patrol at any given time,
the ratio is more like 9167 people per officer.
With 219,840 calls for service dispatched last year,
that's 377 calls per officer,
if each call required only one officer,
and if sergeants took calls.
Unofficially, one precinct commander
said the department has 386 precinct officers.
said the department has 386 precinct officers.
The numbers don't get better.
What would be a good per shift ratio, instead of the 1 to 9100?
Would the 1 to 900 be the ideal target?
Posted by: Claude@work | March 31, 2009 at 02:53 PM
I would take 1-7500 officers to citizen per shift, but 1-5000 would be ideal.
When Deputy Dog worked at his former job. It was 1-3000.
The ideal number is 2 officers employed per 1000 citizens.
Posted by: RD | March 31, 2009 at 03:13 PM
there are only 80,000 in the whole county.
Posted by: deputydog | March 31, 2009 at 03:16 PM