• Corhen@lemmy.world
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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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      1 year ago

      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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          1 year ago

          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…