Taking a random large city as an example, New York City has over 300k employees [1], which is a 25:1 ratio with population. The Police department has 55k employ

Taking a random large city as an example, New York City has over 300k employees [1], which is a 25:1 ratio with population. The Police department has 55k employees [2], which is a 151:1 ratio with population. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_New_York_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_New_York_City [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Department https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Departmen...