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âWe knew this person by name, called him by his first name, asked him how he was feeling. And he dropped the knife, and came to us and started listening to us.â. But despite this proven track record, only 10 percent of the nationâs 25,000 police departments require crisis intervention training. In North Carolina, where Keith was killed, only one in five officers receive the training.
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