Crime and Safety - Number of police officers Rate per 1,000 population (2019) To resort data: click column headings. To download data: click here. Name # police Rank # police New Jersey 1 4.2 New York 2 3.2 Louisiana 3 2.6 Tennessee 4 2.6 Maryland 5 2.6 Kansas 6 2.4 Wyoming 7 2.4 Delaware 8 2.4 Missouri 9 2.4 Rhode Island 10 2.4 Massachusetts 11 2.4 Arkansas 12 2.4 Illinois 13 2.3 North Dakota 14 2.3 Oklahoma 15 2.3 North Carolina 16 2.3 Vermont 17 2.3 Virginia 18 2.3 South Carolina 19 2.2 Wisconsin 20 2.2 Alabama 21 2.2 Colorado 22 2.2 Florida 23 2.2 New Hampshire 24 2.1 Connecticut 25 2.0 Georgia 26 2.0 West Virginia 27 2.0 California 28 2.0 Pennsylvania 29 2.0 South Dakota 30 2.0 Hawaii 31 2.0 Nebraska 32 1.9 Montana 33 1.8 Michigan 34 1.8 Minnesota 35 1.8 Nevada 36 1.8 Arizona 37 1.8 Texas 38 1.8 Alaska 39 1.7 Iowa 40 1.7 Maine 41 1.7 Idaho 42 1.7 Kentucky 43 1.6 Utah 44 1.6 Oregon 45 1.5 Washington 46 1.4 Indiana 47 1.2 Ohio 48 1.1 Mississippi 49 0.9 New Mexico 50 0.9 Source: 1997-2019: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reports, (https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/police-employee-data); DATE LAST UPDATED: March 3, 2022.