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Houston's murder rate in 2005 ranked 46th of U.S. cities with a population over 250,000 in 2005 (per capita rate of 16.3 murders per 100,000 population). [1] In 2010, the city's murder rate (per capita rate of 11.8 murders per 100,000 population) was ranked sixth among U.S. cities with a population of over 750,000 (behind New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia) [2 ...
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) California: 8,784: December 2024 [4] 4: Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) Pennsylvania: 5,544: March 2024 [5] 5: Houston Police Department (HPD) Texas: 5,195: October 2024 [6] 6: Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC) District of Columbia: 3,975: December 2024 [7] 7: Las Vegas ...
Los Angeles: 3,898,747 3332.52: 7.01 ... Texas: Houston: 2,304,580 5252.08: ... and approved a resolution opposing not only the use of the ratings to judge police ...
A decade ago, L.A. County overwhelmingly approved Prop. 47, which turned some nonviolent felonies into misdemeanors. This November, the county overhauled it and supported Nathan Hochman for ...
(The Center Square) – As the largest city closest to the border and a gateway hub for human and drug trafficking and crime linked to cartel and gang violence, Houston has been ground zero for ...
The Houston Police Department (HPD) is the primary municipal law enforcement agency serving the city of Houston, Texas, United States and some surrounding areas. With approximately 5,300 officers and 1,200 civilian support personnel it is the fifth-largest municipal police department, serving the fourth-largest city in the United States.
The department's gang units have long been mired in controversy that reached its height with the late 1990s Rampart scandal that saw more than 70 police officers implicated in unprovoked shootings ...
The Harris County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency in the 1,118 square miles (2,900 km 2) of unincorporated area of Harris County, serving as the equivalent of the county police for the approximately 1,071,485 people living in the unincorporated areas of the county. In Texas, sheriffs and their deputies are fully empowered ...