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Originally Posted by Xurtio
How do you perceive crimes you encounter as an MP differ from a city cop?
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Are you talking about variety of crime or quantity of crime? If you consider the post as a city (and it might as well be considered that way) at any given time we have a population of anywhere from 175,000 to 250,000. This is made of active duty soldiers, reservists, civilian contractors, family members, retirees, and civilian employees. We have barracks, houses, & apartments all ON post to the military & civilians who choose to live in Army housing on post. To put that into perspective for you, the City of Raleigh has a population of ~431K.
So as far as day-to-day functions and operations, we do anything a civilian cop would do: traffic stops, speed enforcement, citizen aid, road side assistance, and investigating general crime. We get most of your run of the mill crime such as theft, assault, DUI/DWI, and DDC (drunk/disorderly conduct). But we also deal with military-specific crime such as soldiers who are
Absent
With
out
Leave, Conduct Unbecoming of an Officer (or Conduct Unbecoming of an Enlisted Solider), repeated uniform violations, insubordination, repeated uniform violations, etc. For instance if a Corporal decides to tell a Captain to go f*ck himself, we'd probably get called to enforce disciplinary action on the Corporal in a court martial (if it went that far).
As far as quantity of calls, on average the company responds to ~1500 calls in a 24hr time period. But remember, a lot of these are traffic assists, general garrison duties, gate/range duty, etc. Anything a civilian cop would respond to in the civilian World, we respond to in the military World. For instance if the motorpool needs to move some tanks, they might would call for a temp. road block. If one of the gates gets backed up for this reason or that, we'd get called to redirect traffic to other gates. If there's an accident, we'd investigate in conjunction with CID to determine what actually happened.
I hope that answered your question, if not, explain a little more and I'll try again!