• Corhen
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      711 months 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

      • @[email protected]
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        811 months 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.

          • Machinist3359
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            311 months 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…

    • @surewhynotlem
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      311 months ago

      I know more than 100 people and zero criminals. Somehow this math doesn’t math to me.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        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.

        • @surewhynotlem
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          111 months ago

          Well now I’m wondering if it’s me