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> It's a police force that handles an area which has just 7400 residents. And about 300,000 daily commuters. What's the commuter/resident ratio for Ferguson? The City of London Police also have certain national responsibilities, in the fields of fraud and intellectual property.
I suppose the problem in Ferguson is more about out-of-town shoppers than commuters. Specifically, out-of-town shoppers for controlled substances. So this is yet another symptom/consequence/whatever in the war on drugs. Just because you made me interested, I googled and found e.g. this: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-darren-wilson-arrest-201... Should Brooks, a resident, and Johnson, a non-resident, have been ar…
Among Greater London's boroughs (not including the City), the out and out winner for outstanding arrest warrants, with more than twice as many as the runner-up (in both absolute terms and per head of population), was the City of Westminster. The vast majority of these -- 535 of 587 -- were for "other offences" (i.e., not actual bodily harm, burglary, robbery, possession of an offensive weapon, serious violence, or sexual offences). What do you suppose that's all about? Can't all be MPs fiddling their expenses.