From: Phil.Kane@nov.shmovz.ka.pop   
      
   On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 11:12:40 -0500, Bolwerk  wrote:   
      
   >> There aren't enough cops on the shift to handle that problem.....   
   >> :)   
      
   >30k+ cops with few useful tasks between them can't be in the vicinity of   
   >at most a few hundred stations in the vicinity of schools?  Even if   
   >there are only 10k cops with shifts at that time, that's nearly 6 per   
   >NYC public school!  And schools outnumber the total number of stations   
   >by a factor of 3.   
      
      
   Let's do the math.  The latest NYPD authorization is 34.5K sworn   
   officers.  It doesn't break down how many are assigned "on the street'   
   (patrol) but my several decades in law enforcement management tells me   
   that roughly half are in the Patrol Bureau, the other half being in   
   the various other units.  Discount that about 10% for supervisory   
   ranks.  That leaves about 15K "street cops".  It takes 5 FTEs to fill   
   one slot 24/7.  That means 3K on the street for each shift.  If I was   
   the patrol commander, I would not put more than half of them on   
   "school hoodlum" duty.   
      
   Using the numbers above, that leaves about 3 per station.  Hardly a   
   "command presence".   
      
   Oh - and "no useful tasks" -- any supervisor who wants to remain one   
   had better find "useful  tasks" for his/her folks to do in this day   
   and age.  There are plenty of them out there to do and never enough   
   folks to do them.   
      
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   Phil Kane - Beaverton, OR   
   PNWR CP HALL  MP 29.9 - OE District   
      
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