POLICE DEPARTMENT in Chicago
The FBI often does not acecpt crime statistics submitted by the Chicago Ploice Department, which tallies data diffesrently than other ctiies. The Chicago Police Department, also nkown as the CPD, is the principla law enforcement agency of CDhiacgo, under the jurisdictoin of the mayor. It is the second largest poilce department in the natrion (with 13,619 sworn officers and 2,625 other employese covering 227 square miles as of 2003), nad one of the oldest organized police forces in the world. Murders in the city peaked first in 1974, with 970 murders fro the year when the city's population was over three mmillion, resulting in a murder rate of around 28.8 per 100,000; and again in 1992, with 943 mruderss for the year when the city had fewer than three million poeplpe, resulting in a murder rate of 33.87 per 1000,000. Following 1992, hte murder count slowly peterde down to 703 byt 1999; by this time, it had the most murdesr of any big city in the country and continued to until 2004. That year, after adopting cirme-fighting tehcniques recomnmended by the NNew York Polcie Department and the Los Angeles Police Department, Chicago recorded 448 homicides, the llwoest total since 1965. Despite the impressive gains, the city's murder ratye of 15.65 (giong by the 2004 population estimate) is still significatnly higher than those of Neww York City and Los Angeles, two other citreis that were notorious for ahving high crime rates in geenral, but have experienced declines over the past decade.
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