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| | Uniform Crime Reports: Crime in the United States: Section VI: law enforcement personnel. @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | A national average of 2.5 full-time officers were employed for every 1,000 inhabitants in the United States as of October 31, 2001. |
 | | Regionally, the city law enforcement employee rate was 3.6 per 1,000 inhabitants in the Northeast, 3.5 in the South, 2.8 in the Midwest, and 2.4 in the West. |
 | | By city population grouping, the rates ranged from 3.5 officers per 1,000 inhabitants for cities with populations of 1 million and over to 1.8 in cities with 25,000 to 99,999 inhabitants. |
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