State and Local Government Police Protection and Correction -- Employment and Expenditures: 1992

[Employment as of October. Expenditures for fiscal years. Local government data are estimates subject to sampling variation; see Appendix III and source]

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                           |       FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT       |         EXPENDITURES
                           |            EMPLOYMENT            |
                           |----------------------------------|-----------------------------
REGION,                    |           Per 10,000             |
DIVISION,                  |           population(1)          |  Total(2)      Per capita(1)
AND STATE           Total  |     Police                       |  (mil. dol.)   (dol.)
                           |     protection     Correction    |
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U.S............. 1,248,277        28.0            20.9             79,502        312
 West...........   256,751        26.8            19.7             21,811        396
  Mountain......    69,716        27.5            21.0              4,476        311
   MT...........     3,270        24.4            15.4                173        210
   ID...........     4,390        25.7            15.5                234        220
   WY...........     2,346        33.7            16.8                148        319
   CO...........    15,640        27.3            17.8              1,051        303
   NM...........     8,279        28.7            23.6                463        293
   AZ...........    21,303        29.2            26.4              1,404        366
   UT ..........     6,548        20.6            15.5                396        219
   NV...........     7,940        32.7            26.7                607        454
 

Notes: (1)Based on resident population as of July 1. (2)Covers police protection, corrections, judicial, and legal functions.

Source: Table No. 333 of the Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1995 U.S. Census Bureau.

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