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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DOUG H who wrote (138318)	4/14/2001 3:24:41 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

--Scum just decided to quibble... rather address the crux of my post. -- among other things, he had a way of doing just that, didn't he? andy

To: DOUG H who wrote (138318)	4/14/2001 3:15:52 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769667

I found a lot of evidence that there never were never any 100,000 cops actually hired, but that there were funds for hiring them available. Some think that more police equated with the drop in crime. Actually it seems the only correlation was that the "talk" or "threat" of hiring them was sufficient. Many Americans think that increasing the number of police officers in their communities will decrease the amount of crime. The research, however, does not support a simple correlation between increased numbers of police officers and decreased crime. Between 1952 and 1978, total police personnel in the United States rose 171 percent, but the crime rate rose by 441 percent, or more than twice the increase in the number of police. 70 Washington D.C., has had one of the worst crime rates in the country and a larger number of police officers per capita (7.18 per 1,000 population) than Detroit (5.18), Chicago (5.00), New York (4.23), Baltimore (4.20), Philadelphia (4.06), and Los Angeles (2.66). 71 New York City's successful campaign against crime was conducted without an increase in police personnel. Notes former Commissioner William Bratton: "The NYPD reached its staffing height in September 1994 and lost about 1400 each year thereafter through attrition until the next recruit class replenished the previous year's losses. Overtime was slashed. We were losing people and crime was still going down in double digits." 72 zeus.townhall.com