BmoreInterested t1_j70cino wrote on February 3, 2023 at 3:52 AM

Reply to comment by _The_Bear in Does anyone wonder where their tax dollars are going? by Nicktendo

Pretty sure that's false. At $560M we certainly spend more than we should for 600K people, but there are other cities that spend more per person. Uvalde comes to mind because of the closer look articles gave to their budget. For 15,312 people they spend $25.3M on police. So they spend $1652 per person vs $933 per person here in Bmore.

_The_Bear t1_j70cw1u wrote on February 3, 2023 at 3:55 AM

You're right. Bmore is the most per Capita of major cities.

BmoreInterested t1_j70df3s wrote on February 3, 2023 at 3:59 AM

This puts us at #4: https://advisorsmith.com/data/cities-that-spend-the-most-and-least-on-police/?amp=1

Edit: when I look at 2020 data and cities over 500K it does look like we're top. I wonder how much it's changed in 3 years though.

rockybalBOHa t1_j729lx5 wrote on February 3, 2023 at 3:41 PM

An interesting comparison is to look at # police per square mile. We actually rank low. The lack of population density in Baltimore skews the $ per capita number. But relatively speaking, the BPD has to cover a huge area and we need a lot of money and officers to do it.