[SaxxonWoods]

“Chicago has the nation’s second-largest police department, consisting of about 13,000 cops, many of whom would not comply with the mandate, Catanzara [police union leader] threatened in an online video.”

That jumped out at me. In college around 1973 I took a criminology course. New York City was used often for discussion. NYC had 30,000 cops at the time.

50 years later Chicago has 13,000? No wonder crime is out of control.

[firebrand]

We have 36,000 cops now and are more than 3 times the population of Chicago. So to go by those numbers, Chicago is safer than NYC.

[SmokingJoe]

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is the largest and one of the oldest municipal police departments in the United States, with approximately 36,000 officers and 19,000 civilian employees

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/about/about-nypd/about-nypd-landing.page