Calgary Police get $25M to hire 200 new officers

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by Scrambler

It's not like the next time there is a drive by shooting it will be stopped by the additional cops because now there's more.

You do realize that cops are there to prevent crimes, and not just react to them, right? They are needed to investigate crimes and gangs in order to prevent laws being broken in the future, not just ones in the present.

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by Incinerator

That's a load of bull...two cars per community maybe. There are definitely more than 8 cars in town at any given time of the day. There's probably 2 ghost cars driving back & forth on Deerfoot all day alone.

I would say perhaps it was meant as 2 cars per police district.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by troutman

I was told at a community police meeting, that there is only ever two cars on patrol in each quadrant at any given time. That's not a lot.

That would partially explain the outrageous amount of crime I've been getting away with lately....