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Cops Per Capita: Who Has The World's Most And Least Concentrated Police Force
The more the cops, the safer: that's what conventional wisdom says. The contrarian view, of course, is that when police per capita are far above average, there is usually a reason. Or, it the distribution could be just pure noise, depending on how much money can be allocated to police budgets or how prone to cop extortion a given country is. The chart below doesn't provide a definitive answer, with Russia leading the world in most police per 100,000 persons according to the UN and ONS, while Greece and Serbia mark the trailing end. Still, those who would rather avoid police brutality and paying a bribe to corrupt law enforcers, may be urged to avoid the left end of the chart below...
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Wrong.
The population of Monaco is 35,000 people, and they have 515 police officers.
Think they're talkin bout countries, not city-states. The Vatican probably has you beat.
Yeap, you're right.
Anyway, other countries have more. Bahamas, Uruguay or Brunei, for example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_police_officers
What's interesting is the missing of Jamaica and Brazil which are over the top and highest with police brutal tactics and police extrajudical killings.
We must be off the chart with our animals on the street.
Naw, they're just more roided up than average. Someone should do the same chart except add the kilos (to make it international) of steroids the cops consume. The US would be easily in the top 3, if not #1.
I am Chumbawamba.
Warren v. District of Columbia[1] (444 A.2d. 1, D.C. Ct. of Ap. 1981) is an oft-quoted[2] District of Columbia Court of Appeals (equivalent to a state supreme court) case that held police do not have a duty to provide police services to individuals, even if a dispatcher promises help to be on the way, except when police develop a special duty to particular individuals.
About a year ago a NYC EMT ....young black woman....basically stepped over a woman in distress in a coffee shop....she was on her break or some such shit....the lady in distress ended up dying....the EMT is still on the job scotfree.
DeShaney v Wennebago and Castle Rock v Gonzalez are two cases that held similar rulings, but are at the SCOTUS level. It's the law of the land, boys and girls. DeShaney was a case where the state knew a kid was being abused and that kid eventually suffered severe brain damage. Castle Rock was a case where an estranged husband had a restraining order preventing him from unsupervised visits with his kids, he picked them up and took them to an amusement park without the wife knowing anyway, the wife called police multiple times, the husband eventually called the wife and told her that he had the kids, the cops totally blew her off despite the restraining order and multiple calls, and showed up at a police station and went in and was killed when he started shooting at police, who later went out to his truck to find the kids dead in the bed.
Data collection flawed....apples/oranges......try adding TSA DHS FBI SHERIFFS DEA NSA etc etc..........hehehehehehe.......police here are just the new grunts......the real police are the 800,000 NSA boyz watching you everyday
> 800,000 NSA boyz
Is that a real number?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/worldwide-militarization-and-the-weapons-industry-americas-surveillance-and-targeted-assassination-machine/5352039?print=1
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/09/the-government-is-spying-on-us-through-our-computers-phones-cars-buses-streetlights-at-airports-and-on-the-street-via-mobile-scanners-and-drones-through-our-smart-meters-and-in-many-other-ways.html
It all depends why there is police. In early 80's my brother in law was out of town for a night and my sister with two toddlers felt scarey and alone at home. She called the local police station and they sent two officer to her home. They came with their flask of tea and folding chairs and table and sat all night outside her home in freezing November night till 5am. This was London police
If you are alone and scared at home and a cope comes and shoot you, one is more than enough.
I think the USDA & Forest service have arrest powers. So does the IRS. Any government agency with a SWAT team. In fact, it isn't how many police per capita, but how many government employees per capita that regulate and control people's lives with a threat of force.
Rangers are armed. That's just Fed employees. Are State Parks rangers armed with arrest authority as well?
Also some places are replacing/augmenting police with private armed patrols.
I need more coffee.
Bahamas yeah,,..we're finally on the map...lot's of murder in Nassau though
Most individuals don't realize the boot in your face of Fascism is already here. The following is shocking & chilling. Chilling because the MSM would NEVER report.
Ocala, Florida — Charles Craig Broaderick, 41, is charged
with battery, he is accused of slamming the head of DUI suspect James
Duckworth, 33, into a concrete wall while he (Duckworth) was handcuffed.
Broaderick said he did it because Duckworth spit at officers.
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i...
Busted link
This one tops that I think:
http://reason.com/blog/2013/12/05/how-do-you-charge-an-unarmed-man-with-sh
So a mentally ill, unarmed man is fired upon, at close range by NYPD and THEY MISS and end up wounding 2 innocent bystanders. Who do they prosecute? The mentally ill unarmed man of course.
"Manhattan district attorney’s office persuaded a grand jury to charge Mr. Broadnax with assault, a felony carrying a maximum sentence of 25 years. Specifically, the nine-count indictment unsealed on Wednesday said Mr. Broadnax “recklessly engaged in conduct which created a grave risk of death.” “The defendant is the one that created the situation that injured innocent bystanders,” said an assistant district attorney"
Am I taking CRAZY pills?
To be fair to small countries, you need some cops for this and that regardless of the population so that will make them somewhat top heavy. Border cops are a good example. Being on a drug transit route like the Bahamas might have an impact too.
NYPD
yes, but this just shows how misleading statistics can be if no context is provided. Monaco's police has way more traffic, visitors and so on to look after than the mere population number suggests. millions visit the place every year
further, how is this police armed? how does it behave? can you compare a SWAT team to some police units you can encounter in Moscow, who are unarmed? or a Venezuelan policemen with a German one?
or just look at Mexico. big differences between the different police units, and you notice that quite fast
Yeah I live in a mid-sized city in Southern Mexico on SS. The state police are totally militarized patroling in the back of pick-ups with automatic assault rifles. There is also a large contingent of essentially traffic police who are unarmed. I have been living in Mexico for 2.5 years, including over a year in a smallish town driving a 125cc bike with no license plates, and I never have had an unpleasant interaction with any police.
when you say state police you mean the federales, don't you? btw, methinks that your Italian Police Tanks comment is a bit strange. Italy has municipal police forces (may or may not be armed), state police, military police and financial police. the last two corps have not only tanks, but also warships, military helicopters and so on
but that is not the same like seeing police using tanks in a civilian setting, it's more about having mixed civilian/military uses of the same corps
meanwhile Italians love to see big groups of policemen loitering at the public places. the strangest thing. they miss them if they don't see 'em. once, at a smallish public concert for 2'000 people I counted 500 policemen, all huddled at one corner of the public space. drug dealing and fake fashion selling on the opposite corner
Little do these modern day Gestapo Fascist know that their pensions have already been accounted / stolen for.
I try telling them... Accounting is not a strong suit. And they want to believe what the government tells them. A poor combination, IMO.
<< The population of Monaco is 35,000 people, and they have 515 police officers. >>
You are not counting the tourists! They want to protect their own citizens.
EDIT: I did not see your comment Ghordius before I wrote it. Lot's of Gigolos and jewel thieves around Hotel de Paris
The reason we have that many police in Belgium is because it takes that many to screw in a lightbulb.
And if you don't wake them up they don't bother you.
And don't forget Belguim has the largest airforce in the world, pigeons dropping biological weapons on thier own population centers and visitors.
Doped up pigeons, apparently!
Monaco=$$$$. The rich just wanna feel safe and protected.
It's a BRING YOUR OWN SECURITY DETAIL TASKFORCE kind of place...
True. Lots of wealthy Italian ladies dare not wear their valuable jewels in Italy, so they go to Monaco where they can safely flout them night and day.
BTW, Monaco has police tv cameras almost everywhere.
Cops in Monaco ? Since you got no poors, I don't see what they have to do...
Tips must be great, though.
No poors in Monaco...but plenty rich expat. crooks
Damn lies and statistics again. Skewed by the fact that many countries such as those in Arab countries and Latin America have large numbers of quasi-police forces, hybrids of army and police. Columbia for example bristles with military style uniforms and in Egypt every second person seems to be in uniform.
I think DHS is counting on " if you see something, say something" as a stealth police force. LMAO
Why isn't the US on that list? Surely we have way too many cops.
I thought the Vodka salesman was the prominant job in Russia..
deees vodka.... eees not for sale... i drink
worth checking with Boris!
In Russia, vodka drink you.
You drink the first bottle.... the first bottle drinks the second bottle..... the third bottle drinks you.
Hookers can't be far behind.
Damn...the US didn't even make the list...sure seems like we have too many...
I guess it's all because they love pulling me over when I drive the 'weekend car'.
My town of 500 population in flyover country just got our first federally funded M1 tank. We're not sure what we're going to do with it. Probably just blow up some crap at the weekend kegger parties.....cause they sent ammo too.
We asked them if they had any 22LR as well.......they didn't.
One way to look at is is that small towns are becoming the pawns of the Federal Government. Another way to look at it is that small towns everywhere are becoming more security independent and don't need the federal government. Yet ANOTHER way to look at it is that when the federal boot attempts to stamp out a small town they might have to commit a much larger force then before as the town will be armed with military equipment.
If you needed to obtain some military grade hardware in a rush would you prefer it was locked in a military arsenal, or surrounded by chain link behind the local doughnut enthusiast club?
Glass half full, my friends, half full.
At first glance I liked your hypothesis, then upon further reflection I had to ask myself "would I jump in and drive ONE MIRV or ONE M-1 against a whole platoon of them coming straight at me? Would anyone else?
I don't think I need to answer that.
LMAO! So true about no 22LR.
But the M1 is a fun smooth bore to shoot. Just the shock wave off the projectile will decapitate a mook too close to its flight path!
And who told you "...surrounded by chain link behind the local doughnut enthusiast club?" ???
Now we gotta move it.
What strings are attached to the tank? Did they have to promise to confiscate your guns when the order is given?
Strings?
What do you mean strings? We just thought it was some free stuff.
Probably higher than all the rest if you add in TSA, DHS, FBI, CIA, LEO, etc., etc., Hell, in FL even the Fish and Game wardens have arrest powers. When the greeter at Wally World can arrest me for returning a cart with a squeaky wheel, I'm leaving and burning my passport...
Yeah, US got hosed on this, bullshit metrics! Maybe on purpose? This come out of BLS?!
What country has the largest prison population?
Prison guards (public and privatized) should definitely have been included, and arguably parole officers also.
People are policed whether currently jailed or not.
Yeah, I DDGed it (Duck Duck Go - fuck you Google). Based on the 11,000 largest towns and cities in the USA the ratio per 100k is 230, so the USSA didn't make the chart. Of course the police in Italy and Costa Rico are not patrolling the streets in newly acquired tanks.
The contrarian view, of course, is that when police per capita are far above average, there is usually a reason.
Of course the real purpose of police, as the enforcement intranationally of the bankers, is to profit from crime. One example in the USSA is the extrajudicial confiscation of pertsonal property based on the suspicion of possession or trafficking in contraband drugs. Uruguay this month became the first country in the world to legalize cannabis entirely. Hopefully the CIA is making enough profit from its heroin trade out of Afghanistan that the Uruguians will not require a change of regime via humanitarian bombing.
around 400 per 100,000 in Luxembourg
(that's a total of 2000 btw)
bullish - now go buy MOAR STAWKS!!!
l'd like to see a graph of bankers per capita, the more important metric.
To all of you who hold Putin up as some model of benevolent dictator.
I'm not buying into that but I'd rather have a more macho figure in the WH than the dandied candie-ass pussy we have now... Eastwood 2016
"The success of a police force is measured by the absence of crime, not on a conspicuous or overbearing police presence." David Friedman (IIRC)
this is a counting of the physical police force......add in cyber cops/ irs/ goverment agencies/google,et al collaberation and you'll know the MAN is out there watching
Totally inaccurate, the US has to be in the top 10. Probably not considering the layers and layers of police that we have here.
Ding ding ding, we have a winnar! Add up all the police, TSA, DSH, FBI, NSA, etc. and we definitely have to be top 10. I call total BS on the article.
The US is surely the worlds top police state. Hell, we police THE WORLD!
Let's make a list... shit, the Treasury has armed law enforcement officers and so does the:
USPS
Education Dept.
Fish and Game / Wildlife
Ag' Dept / Law Enf. Forest Rangers
(c'mon folks add some more to this list0
Border Patrol
Customs agent
County, state, local police
Sheriff's office
Constables
DEA
Lets not forget prison guards - the US has more inmates per capita than any other industrial country
UN never waste a chance to lay on the propaganda, Colombia, Serbia and El Salvador on the far right of the chart, to me they appear to be letting you know that if you lay off police officers you'll end up in a mafia controlled drug infested country where you may or may not be kidnapped if you happen to show any outward signs of wealth (or you may end up in a state of perpetual civil war).
"Our jackbooted tyranny, its for yer own good!"
No mention of New Rome, Ohio?
OR Lavon, Texas? Cop ratios to population of 1:1 in the first case and 1:3 in the 2nd?
Or 'was' I should say ...
http://www.newromesucks.com/main.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rome,_Ohio
Texas worst speed traps
http://arencambre.com/blog/2010/03/04/texass-worst-speed-traps/
Fish and Wildlife better known as Game Wardens have incredible policing power. They can enter private property without warrant. I live in a suburb of 110 K in NW burbs of Chicago. 190 full time police officers. Any given overnight shift there are maybe 6 to 8 on duty cops. It is the fear of getting caught that is that thin blue line. Do you drive the speed limit because it is the speed limit or do you drive the speed limit because you don't want to pay another 120 dollar fine? If you add county sheriffs, metra police, State Cops, Fbi, ETC ETC we are policed to death in USSA. If you wonder why fleeced rhymes with poiliced just pull up your city budget on line and see what your taxes pay in pension and benefits for your police and fire departments. It will make a grown man cry. In a lot of the suburbs cops can retire after 20 years because that is obviously the most difficult job and most dangerous in America, right? Hell, I worked on the kill floor of a beef slaughterhouse and things can get dicey quick if a steer gets up and starts running around after being "put down." Anyway I must stop as I may get carried away.
Can't take the King's natural resources without paying HIM.
I once counted 26 separate police jurisdictions covering the city of Houston. It seems no one can rely on cops so every entity has to have its own police force.
Source, the UN. That's rich! What a sham of an organization.
Who needs the pigs when God, sorry the NSA are watching out for us?
Cum together, right now, over me.
FUCK THE POLICE !!!
Gettin ready to marry a black and white er ya. Fuck the law I say, they are already blue in the face and they aint even seen my guns yet.
Where's the graph that shows how many countries bought enough ammo to kill all their citizens 3 times over?
Newark, New Jersey has a total of 46.7 officers per 10,000 inhabitants, which equates to 467 per 100,000.
source of data : http://www.governing.com/gov-data/safety-justice/law-enforcement-police-department-employee-totals-for-cities.html
The city I live in (SE Michigan) has 104 sworn officers for 80,000 residents or 125 per 100,000. So it depends on where you live. Detroit is a little over 400 per.
Not including the state police, fish & wildlife, forest service, plus the IRS, TSA, BATFE, DEA, FBI, BP, DHS and a thousand other agencies which are tasked with enforcing different laws as part of their charter and whose agents (1) may carry guns where you may not and (2) have the power to arrest you.
OMG - Russia is like Detroit/Newark coast to coast?
I see the police of Americas towns/citys/states all being Federalized in the not too distant future.
On any given day a US Marshall will arrive at the local constabulary with a fugitive warrant. All civil rights will then be suspended until further notice.
In fact and practice, Federalization has already happened.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_police_officers for a more complete listing
they should rank police forces by their stocks of heavy weapons and armor
Maybe one day they turn gun on Politicians and Bankers? When pension dry up?
Never happen, they're far too brainwashed to follow orders rather than think for themselves.
OK Mr. Down voter, please let me know when the Sheriff's office in any given state arrest the corrupt politicians and bankers for their crimes against virtually every citizen in their state. Instead of independent thought and action, they're controlled by the corrupt leadership instead of upholding their oath to the law.
Yes they actually DO have that independent authority. Problem is the coward AGs wouldn't prosecute. They'd throw out the charges under pressure from above.
Case closed!
Iran is missing in the list, they must be in the top 3 , its weird.
Many nations, like Brazil and Italy, have para-military police. These are not just cops but soldiers too.
In the US, we have the National Guard as a supplemental police force.
While the Armed Services (Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard) are not constitutionally authorized to get involved in Domestic Affairs, they provide direct and indirect assistance in policing the nation. I won't go there with comments about the CIA and FBI
While the Armed Services (Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard) are not constitutionally authorized to get involved in Domestic Affairs
NOPE
Your President signed an excutive order that says. Active Duty military can now be used in country. That is why he is FIRING ALL THE TOP BRASS. They refuse to go against the Oath.
//If they count mall cops the USA would have them all beat.
The police are the government's claws.
I've been in Algeria for the past 12 months and there are a lot of police around. For the most part they are very visible and they aren't that militarized.
Most are in royal blue, normal looking uniforms driving around in little hatchbacks or SUVs with a light bar. Some are in darker blue uniforms with tactical garb, but their headgear is still a ball cap. Overall, they've been fairly friendly with no arbitrary "Papers please" shenanigans.
I have a hard time believing the numbers for Portugal. I spent 2 fantastic weeks there this past summer and I hardly remember seeing any police at all.
(Reply/el G's DDG)
Knowing people in Chadds Ford
and Berwyn I got a kick
discovering DDG's in Paoli.
(Delaware Co, PA--near Del. & Md.)
http://technical.ly/philly/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/11/duckduckgo...
http://www.instantstreetview.com/2gn15qz1ymlniz483zr5z2u
Fuck the police, comin' straight from the underground!
So why is the US not on this graph? If we were where would we fit.
Right under their jack boot!