When we posted last Friday that the Memphis metro was #2 (13.79 out of 1,000 workers) in the ranking of cities with the most security guards per 1,000 workers, it raised the question of the city’s our ranking for number of police officers.  The listing below shows where Memphis stands in that ranking.

The ranking is for officers per 10,000 population, 2016:

55.1 – Washington DC

43.9 – Chicago

42.3 – New York City

40.6 – Baltimore

40.2 – Philadelphia

39.5 – Newark

38.0 – St. Louis

37.4 – Cleveland

35.8 – Atlanta

35.3 – Cincinnati

35.1 – Detroit

31.8 – Charleston

31.6 – Jackson TN

31.5 – Milwaukee
Boston

30.6 – Richmond

30.1 – MEMPHIS

30.0 – Pittsburgh

29.5 – New Orleans

28.8 – Syracuse

28.3 – Kansas City

26.7 – Miami

26.4 – San Francisco
Little Rock

25.7 – Orlando

25.4 – Germantown

25.3 – Tampa

24.8 – Dallas

24.6 – Los Angeles

24.4 – Chattanooga

24.0 – Jackson, MS

22.9 – Houston

22.4 – Salt Lake City

21.2 – Denver

20.9 – Las Vegas
Nashville

20.5 – Honolulu

20.4 – Bartlett

20.3 – Minneapolis

20.2 – Knoxville

20.0 – Jacksonville
Collierville

19.8 – Seattle

19.4 – Charlotte

18.9 – Austin

18.6 – Indianapolis

18.4 – Fort Worth
Tulsa

17.4 – Phoenix

17.3 – Oklahoma City

16.8 – Murfreesboro

16.3 – Tucson

15.8 – Raleigh

14.7 – El Paso

14.4 – San Antonio

14.1 – Portland

12.8 – San Diego

9.0 – San Jose

Source: 2016 FBI UCR Data