4 Cops for Every Congressman - But Pelosi Wants More

In "Surf City," the Beach Boys sang that there were two girls for every boy. But in Swamp City, there are four cops for every Congressman. 

That doesn’t refer to Washington D.C.’s already huge concentration of law enforcement and multiple overlapping police forces. Washington D.C. has the highest ratio of police to people of any major city in the country. There are 650 officers for every 100,000 residents in D.C. That’s 40% higher than any other major city in America including Chicago and Baltimore. It has a 58% higher police ratio than New York, more than double that of Boston, and triple that of L.A. 

But that’s nothing compared to the private police force dedicated only to protecting Congress.

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