History
Baton Rouge was incorporated in 1817 and the Baton Rouge Police Department was formally established in 1865, just after the end of the Civil War, with the appointment of the first Chief of Police.
Currently the Baton Rouge Police Department receives about 215,000 service calls. In an average year, city police officers:
- Respond to and write reports on 135,000 non-traffic calls
- Respond to 30,000 false alarms
- Investigate 21,000 serious crimes
- Investigate 17,000 traffic crashes
- Make 8,000 arrests
- Submit 22,000 pieces of evidence or property
- Seize 900 firearms
- Present 200 crime prevention and education seminars (to about 10,000 people)
- Destroy 2,500 pounds of seized illegal narcotics
- License 12,000 bicycles
- Drive 7,000,000 miles (11,000,000 km)
In 2005, due to elevated population levels as a result of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, many of these numbers were significantly higher.
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