Police, fire recruits are on hold. Budget squeeze delays training.

 In most divisions there are about 50-75 officers available for the 3 shifts.  Avg. the numbers, say 60, (which is still to high) you have 480 to 500 officers actually on the street.  However, you must take into account the flex units and traffic units (Take away another 10 officers each division).  You are left with 400- 420 officers, if all are on full duty or not on paid administrative leave.  This number is probably still a little high, with most of the officers being placed in the worst divisions, and deservedly so.

One division has 20 on 1st shift, 15 on the second shift, and 20 on late shift.  Take into account off days,  and the maximum number in most of the divisions, if you are lucky, gets 12 officers on the street at one time.  Those divisions with the luxury of 12 officers need 20 for safety and calls for service purposes.  The divisions with less than that are lucky to have 8 or 9.  If a division has 6 beats that is less than 2 ofc.'s a beat.  Realistic numbers should be average at least 2 ofc.'s per beat plus one ofc. that floats for each sector.  This would mean 15 ofc.'s for a 3 sector division.  

Most of the old "county"(Not meant as a city / county thing, it is the easiest way to describe the location of these divisions) divisions have minimums (which no longer exist) of 10 ofc.'s per shift.  Some of the divisions have been riding 5 or 6 ofc.s per shift at different times of the year.  Ofc. safety is a huge problem, not to mention how little of work you can do with less than 1 ofc. a beat.  This information is only available on the LMPD intranet site, and unless you pay attention to the asterisks and other symbols denoting ofc.'s status a lot of misleading takes place.