The Nation - News from Feb. 3, 1986
Expenditures on law enforcement and the sizes of many police departments in major U.S. cities have leveled off in recent years, the Bureau of Justice Statistics said in a new report. Inflation-adjusted police expenditures for 88 cities with populations of more than 100,000 rose from $190 million in 1938 to more than $1 billion in 1982, the latest period for which figures are available, the study concluded.
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