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LAPD’s budget for the fiscal year 2000–2001: $835,934,537

Number of officers LAPD is below its budgeted size: 1,100

Number of LAPD officers as of June 13, 2002: 9,022

Number of LAPD officers in 1980: 6,752

Number of LAPD officers in 1893: 93

Number of officers on LAPD’s first police force: 6

Percentage of female LAPD officers as of June 3, 2002: 18.9

Percentage of female LAPD officers in 1980: 2.6

Number of female officers in 1910: 1

Percentage of male African-American LAPD officers as of June 3, 2002: 13.5

Percentage of male African-American LAPD officers in 1980: 6.8

Percentage of female African-American LAPD officers as of June 3, 2002: 3.0

Percentage of female African-American LAPD officers in 1980: 0.3

Percentage of Latino LAPD officers as of June 3, 2002: 34.2

Percentage of Latino LAPD officers in 1980: 10.7

Percentage of Latina LAPD officers as of June 3, 2002: 6.3

Percentage of Latina LAPD officers in 1980: 0.2

Percentage of Asian LAPD officers as of June 3, 2002: 5.4

Percentage of Asian LAPD officers in 1980: 1.1

Percentage of male Native American LAPD officers as of June 3, 2002: 0.4

Percentage of male Native American LAPD officers in 1980: 0.2

Percentage of female Native American LAPD officers as of June 3, 2002: 0.1

Percentage of Native American LAPD officers in 1980: 0

Percentage of Filipino LAPD officers as of June 3, 2002: 1.5

Percentage of Filipino LAPD officers in 1980: 0.2

Number of officers on the streets of L.A. as of June 18, 2002: 5,662

Number of civilians working for LAPD as of June 18, 2002: 3,088

Number of female deputy chiefs, out of five, as of June 3, 2002: 1

Number of female deputy chiefs, out of 11, in 1980: 0

Number of female assistant chiefs, out of three, as of June 3, 2002: 0

Number of female assistant chiefs, out of three, in 1980: 0

Number of African-American captains, out of 69, as of January 8, 2001: 9

Number of African-American sergeants, out of 1,083, as of January 8, 2001: 175

Number of Latino deputy chiefs, out of 9, as of January 8, 2001: 1

Number of Latino commanders, out of 21, as of January 8, 2001: 2

Number of LAPD patrol divisions: 18

Year LAPD had its first patrol car: 1914

Number of vehicles currently in LAPD fleet: 4,180

Number of undercover/unmarked vehicles: 1,376

Number of LAPD motorcycles: 359

Cost of a patrol car: $27,242.83

Patrol car average mileage per year: 18,000

Fuel used in 2001: 3,560,960.6 gallons

Number of vehicles, including undercover, purchased in 2001: 549

Number of unmarked/undercover vehicles purchased in 2001: 196

Average lifespan of a patrol car: 5 years

Year LAPD’s motorcycle speed squad was formed: 1913

Make of LAPD’s first patrol car: Oakland

Percentage of police-pursuit fatalities in California that involved LAPD from 1993 to 1995: 60.

Number of LAPD police pursuits in 1995: 816

Percentage of suspects hurt during police pursuits in 1995: 54.7

Percentage of officers hurt during police pursuits in 1995: 15

Percentage of police pursuits that resulted in crashes in 1995: 35.4

Out of 816 pursuits, number of chases that lasted 10 minutes or longer in 1995: 72

Number of police pursuits in 2000: 663

Number of police pursuits in 2001: 728

Number of civilians/suspects injured during police pursuits in 2001: 183

Number of officers injured (from complaint to broken bones) during police pursuits in 2001: 8

Number of officer-involved shooting incidents in 2001: 66

Number of civilians fatally shot by LAPD in 2001: 7

Number of incidents where a civilian was shot and wounded by LAPD in 2001: 15

Number of incidents where an officer was shot and wounded in 2001: 7

Number of officer-involved shooting incidents that resulted in no injuries in 2001: 13

Number of LAPD injury incidents with civilians that didn’t involve guns or hospitalization in 2001: 1,846

Number of shootings that involved off-duty officers in 2001: 10

Number of incidents where an LAPD officer’s gun went off accidentally in 2001: 11

Number of dogs that were shot by LAPD in 2001: 20

Number of cases in 2001 where an LAPD canine attacked a civilian and sent him/her to the hospital: 3

Number of in-custody deaths in 2001: 2

Number of neck-restraint injury incidents in 2001: 6

Number of incidents in which a civilian was hit by an LAPD officer on the head with an impact weapon such as a gun or flashlight in 2001: 9

Number of pepper-spray incidents in 2001: 227

Number of pepper-spray incidents from November 1993 to July 1994: 645

Of those, the number who were nonwhite victims: 486

Number of officers disciplined as a result of pepper-spray use from November 1993 to July 1994: 4

Number of officers deployed during the 2000 Democratic National Convention: 2,000

Number of officers deployed during Pope John Paul II’s visit to Los Angeles in 1987: 5,800

Number of helicopters deployed during Pope John Paul II’s visit to Los Angeles in 1987: 11

Number of officers mobilized in L.A. in anticipation of the Rodney King verdict: 6,500

Number of officers mobilized after the L.A. Lakers won their first championship: 250

Percentage decline in bookings at local jails LAPD reported during Pope John Paul II’s visit to Los Angeles in 1987: 50

Amount LAPD agreed to pay seven journalists who said they were clubbed with batons and shot with rubber bullets while they were trying to cover an August 14, 2000, Democratic National Convention protest: $60,000

Year additional staff was brought into the City Attorney’s Office as part of a new unit to handle lawsuits against the police, and a legal counsel was created within the police department to coordinate responses to the lawsuits but not to investigate the underlying claims: 1992

Number of officers, out of 37, who were considered "uninformed" after they failed to answer basic questions put forth by disguised ACLU interns who were evaluating access to citizen-complaint procedures in 1996: 21

Year French troops were deployed to Los Angeles to protect the area’s small French population, who feared for their lives and property: 1860

Year LAPD was formed: 1869