On: Glasgow’s parking lot thugs get entrepreneurial

[arethuza]

According to this list (and associated discussion) at Nationmaster the US doesn't have an unusually high number of police officers per capita:

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_pol_percap-crime-polic...

At 2.84 per thousand that's a bit more than the UK (2.04) but less than Germany, Italy, Portugal, Latvia and other countries.