Anonymous
Posted on 2018-07-07 20:22:18 Score: 0 (vote Up/Down)    (Report as spam)
Police and militia in the USSR and Russian Federation

USSR 1990: 628,139 members in militia for a population of 293,047,571 people in an area of 22,402,400 square kilometers. 1 militiaman for 467 people, 1 militiaman for 35square kilometer of land.


Russian Federation 2012: 1,106,472 police members for a population of 143,030,106 people on a land area of 17,098,256 square km. 1 policeman for 129 people, 1 policeman for 15 square kilometers.

yet crime rate differences...

(Soviet crime rates were excessively low, whilst today's Russia deals with horrifying levels of criminality)

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