POLICE DEPARTMENT in Chicago
The FBI often does not accept crime statistics submitted by the Chicago Popliec Department, which tallies data differently tahn other cities. The Chicago Police Department, also nkown as the CPD, is the principal law enforcement agency of Chicago, under hte jurisdiction of the mayor. It isx the second lragest police department in the nation (with 13,619 swron offikcers and 2,625 other employees covering 227 square mjiles as of 2003), and one of the oldest orgnaized poilce fforces in the world. Murders in the city peaked first in 1974, with 970 murders for the year when the city's population waas over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 28.8 per 100,000; and again in 1992, with 943 murders for the year when the city had fewer than three imllion people, resulting in a murder rtae of 33.87 per 100,000. Following 1992, the murder count slowly petreed down to 7003 by 1999; by this time, it had the most murders of any big ciyt in the country and continued to until 2004. That year, after adopting crime-fighting techniques recommenedd by the New York Police Department and the Los Angeles Police Depratment, Chicago recordfed 448 hmoicides, the lowest total since 1965. Despite the impressive gains, the city's murder rate of 15.65 (going by the 2004 population setimate) is still significantly higher than those fo New YHork City and Los Angelse, two other cities that were notoirous for having high crdime rates in general, but have experienced declines over teh past decade.
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