Why not hire the police to investigate for you?

Or if you cannot afford it, why not get an insurance that will pay for this hire?

Naturally, police will only serve their patrons, currently government.

Buying police can be expensive. 7 years ago
" OFF-DUTY officers can earn $103 an hour keeping troublemakers away from teen parties. PARENTS are hiring armed police, and police vehicles, for teen parties. A family from Brisbane recently paid $1000 for two uniformed police officers to back up private security guards also hired for their teenage son's party.. Police charge double the rate on public holidays. Parents are paying twice as much for police to attend parties as private security guards, who charge about $55 an hour."

nick etc,

"The ratio rises about 380% in 50 years and on a graph this works out at about one per 1 in around 2017"

You might want to do those numbers again. Way off.

Perhaps we need to move some funding out of police work and into numeracy education.

Or better yet the police could get you to do their stats and ultimately prove that they are solving 104.3% of all murders. :)

No it's all correct. For a start he says "Avon and Somerset police has, for example, closed its burglary unit.Statistics quoted tend to backup ". One police-man per less people means the police are increasing not decreasing.
One policeman for 765 then 693 then 417 .
693/765 is .9 and 417/693 is .6. The change is .1 to .3 or 300%.
Or 765/693 is 1.1 and 693/417 is 1.6 . The change is .1 to .5 or 500%.

Did you try a graph ? The drop is 72 then 276 or change of 380% .

( then obviously the 380% on 276 is 1048 (or even more as the growth is exponential). There are 417 people with one policeman but the number in 50 years will be 417-1048= -631 in the year 2051.
So one policeman for 1 person is about now.)

//"The ratio rises about 380% in 50 years and on a graph this works out at about one per 1 in around 2017"

You might want to do those numbers again. Way off.//

I'm with mhaze on this one. According to my calculations, we shouldn't expect a 1:1 ratio of police to civilians until 4286 C.E. based on the given data and my methodology.

//One policeman for 765 then 693 then 417 .
693/765 is .9 and 417/693 is .6. The change is .1 to .3 or 300%.
Or 765/693 is 1.1 and 693/417 is 1.6 . The change is .1 to .5 or 500%.//

Well no wonder your solution is wrong... your working is wrong. You're taking ratios of police to police.