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The Twin Towers Correctional Facility is the largest de facto mental health facility in the U.S. with over 2,500 incarcerated mentally ill inmates in a facility of over 4,000 inmates
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Men’s Central Jail is the largest jail in the free world
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Over 165,000 inmates are processed through the Inmate Reception Center annually, with over 800 inmates released every 24 hours
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The Average Length of Stay (ALOS) for a Los Angeles County jail Inmate is 54 days
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department operates the Biggest Jail System in the Country with eight separate jails housing a total of about 20,000 inmates daily
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The LASD has 23 patrol stations and dozens of sub-stations for 40 contract cities and 140 unincorporated communities, plus scores of sub-stations policing transit, parks, hospitals, county buildings, and community colleges
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is the largest sheriff’s department in the nation and the second largest policing agency in the U.S. (after NYPD)
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Sheriff Leroy D. Baca is the 30th Sheriff Los Angeles County and was elected in 1998
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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department patrol personnel alone comprise the nation’s seventh largest patrol policing force.
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department patrols over 3,100 of the county’s 4,083 square miles.
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is the sole patrol policing agency for nearly 4 million of the county’s 10 million plus residents.
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Only 33 of the world’s countries have more people than the State of California At least 58 different languages are spoken by the culturally diverse employees and volunteers of the LASD.
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One of eight people living in the U.S. live in California (Source: U.S. Census Bureau)
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One out of four Californians, and one out of every 29 people who live in the U.S. live in Los Angeles County. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau)
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One out of three people who live in Los Angeles County was born outside the U.S., and more than 50% speak a language other than English at home. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau)
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Los Angeles County’s 4,083 square miles includes 88 cities and 90 unincorporated communities (Source: U.S. Census Bureau)
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With over 10 million people, Los Angeles County has the largest county population in the nation, with more residents than 42 individual states of the U.S. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau)
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LA Sheriff’s Department has 650-800 mobile digital computers logged on at any one time
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LA Sheriff’s Department share innovations and multi-jurisdictional teamwork and cooperation with multi-agency radio interoperability
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LA Sheriff’s Department Counter Terrorism Unit which works in conjunction with the seven county, multi-agency, Los Angeles Joint Regional Intelligence Center (JRIC) and FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.
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The County is the largest employer in the five-County region.
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L.A. County has the largest Sheriff's Department in the world.
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The jails house the largest psychiatric population in the nation.
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Over 165,000 inmates are processed through the Inmate Reception Center annually, with over 800 inmates released every 24 hours
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LA Sheriff’s Department has a jail Food Services Unit that produces 88,000 meals a day
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LA Sheriff’s Department has a fleet of over 5,100 vehicles including over 2,000 marked radio cars, 27 boats and 20 aircrafts (17 helicopters and 3 fixed wing)
