about 12,501 local departments
About how many of those U.S. police agencies are local city or town police departments?
Local departments make up the large majority of all law enforcement agencies nationwide.
Source: Wikipedia (2020) en.wikipedia.org
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In what year did Boston establish what's considered the first organized, publicly funded, full-time professional police force in the U.S.?
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about $286 per person
By 2016, inflation-adjusted per-person spending on U.S. policing had risen to about how much, more than triple its 1951 level?
Policing budgets have grown substantially over the decades even after adjusting for inflation.
Source: Wikipedia (2016) en.wikipedia.org
about 13.1 million
In 2010, about how many arrests (excluding traffic violations) were reported across the United States?
That figure covers arrests reported by law enforcement agencies nationwide in a single year.
Source: Wikipedia (2010) en.wikipedia.org
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