In fact, Washington, D.C., a predominately black city policed by a predominantly black force, sees far more shootings per cop than any city in the country. As for fatal shootings per 1,000 officers, New York rates a 0.48. The Los Angeles Police Department faces the most serious corruption scandal in its history. Still, this represents well under 1 percent of a city police force of nearly 10,000 sworn officers. Compare police performance to other areas of government.
Government schools educate most of America's children.
Our kids rank near the bottom in math, science, and history, against our European and Asian counterparts. According to the New England Journal of Medicine , medical negligence results in 100,000 deaths annually. Medicare and Medicaid fraud might approximate nearly 10 percent of total outlays. A 10 percent defect rate for, say, the LAPD, translates into nearly 1,000 bad cops. Yet in 1998, the LAPD answered about one million calls.