From the 2002 Uniform Crime Report
The average New England PD has 2.2 Officers per 1000.
It is also broken down by population groups.
populations of 250,000 + = 3.6 per 1000
100,000-249,999 = 2.9
50,000 - 99,000 = 2.1
25,000- 49,000 = 1.8
10,000- 24,999 = 1.9
under 10,000 = 1.9
My Department is at 1 per 1000 with a population group of 10,000- 24,999
I don't know of too many departments in Massachusetts that are even close to the New England Average.
NYC is one cop per 218 ppl.
But the avg is about 1 cop per 500 ppl.
Assuming there are about 800,000 law enforcement officers in the United States, and 308,745,530 people (according to the U.S. Census web page at the time this answer was written), there would be one law enforcement officer for every 385 people in the country.
Gendarmes (The Gendarmerie) are a MILITARY unit assigned to do police duties among the general civilian population. The Police are comprised of a strictly CIVILIAN force. The US has no equivelant of the Gendarme system.
Civilian Police International was created in 2003.
A person who is not a member of the military or the police force.
In a rather literal naming scheme: Civilian Police Oversight Agency.
about the same function as civilian police perform
If you kill a civilian, you could be arrested by the police or they will kill you back.
Unlikely. DOD Police are civilian employees.
Yes. When Military Police are off base and violating the law, they can be stopped by civilian police. If it is determined that a law violation did occur, then they can be ticketed, but police rarely ticket on-duty officers from other departments.
civilian police, detachment
police woman
DOD is Department of Defense. DOD Police are civilian police assigned to work on DOD installations.
because there were no civilian deaths