Quotation marks would only have to be used on thoughts if the<br />thoughts were someone else's. If the thoughts came from a book, computer source, or some other source, then quotation marks should be used. However, the writer of the essay does not have to quote his or her <i>own</i> thoughts.
As of 2011, there are at least 25,000 sworn (and armed) law enforcement officers working for federal agencies not traditionally associated with law enforcement, and 3,800 of them were specifically criminal investigators.
How many cops are there in the United States? In 2008, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there were 765,246 full-time police officers in the United States â roughly 251 police per 100,000 residents. Since then, we havenât had a good official count, but extrapolating from the most recent Census Bureau data, I estimate that, as of 2014, there were 765,980 police in the United States, roughly 241 police per 100,000 residents. This estimate is probably a bit on the low side. Hereâs how I got there. Many Data Sources, All of Them Flawed