COUNTY NEIGHBORS HAVE FEWER COPS, SPEND LESS.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer Opponents of a one-half percent sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. increase on the Nov. 2 ballot cite statistics they compiled using state attorney general data that shows Los Angeles County has more law enforcement officers on a per capita basis and spends more money on them than five surrounding counties. Yet the officers make fewer felony arrests than those in surrounding counties, said Kris Vosburgh, executive director of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association helped sponsor Proposition 13, the property tax-cutting initiative in California in 1978 which slashed property taxes by fifty-seven percent and initiated a national tax revolt. It was founded by California republican Howard Jarvis. . In 1999-2000, the most recent year for which state attorney general data was available, law enforcement expenditures in the county totaled $339 per resident, compared with $249 in Orange County, $232 in Ventura County, $211 in San Diego County, $199 in Riverside County and $192 in San Bernardino County, Vosburgh said. Expenditures were $241 per capita at the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . and $327 at the Sheriff's Department in 1990-2000. A Daily News review of data this year found the costs are still high in the county. The Sheriff's Department figure is $359. The Long Beach Police Department is at $350 and the Pasadena Police Department The Pasadena Police Department is the police department serving Pasadena, California The headquarters of the Pasadena Police Department is located at 207 North Garfield Avenue in Pasadena, just a few blocks from the Pasadena City Hall and Paseo Colorado. at $290. The least expensive police agency was the Glendale Police Department at $190. Yet in 2002, the number of felony arrests per 100 sworn law enforcement officers in the county was 573, less than half the 1,265 in San Bernardino County and lower than in Ventura, Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties. Although the county's violent crime rate of 899 crimes per 100,000 population in 2002 is higher than in surrounding counties - three times higher than in Ventura and Orange counties - the rate has nearly dropped by half from more than 1,600 crimes per 100,000 population in 1993. Supporters of Measure A say the county has only half as many officers per capita as New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Chicago and Philadelphia. While the county has 22,361 cops and 10 million people, New York City has 39,110 cops but only 8 million residents. Chicago has 14,777 cops and 2.9 million residents. The LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. has 240 officers per 100,000 population, and the Sheriff's Department has 221 deputies per 100,000 population. That's less than half the 488 officers at the New York Police New York Police may refer to:
Overall, Los Angeles County has 221 officers per 100,000 population, compared with 398 in Cook County, Ill., which has 5.4 million people. |
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