P-I analysis: Seattle FBI office severely understaffed

[flamingyouth]

The FBI field office in Seattle, already stretched thin by anti-terrorism operations, is seriously understaffed compared with others around the country.

To be on par with the national average, Western Washington needs 53 additional special agents, for a total of 186, a Seattle P-I analysis shows.

Seattle, Atlanta and Detroit each host field offices staffed with fewer special agents per capita than those in other states, despite those cities' significance to commerce, industry and even national security.

While nationwide there are four FBI agents for every 100,000 people, the figure in Washington state is only 2.1 agents, according to the P-I's analysis of data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Discounting large agent concentrations in New York, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, which house national squads, administrators and the FBI Academy, the average rate is three agents per 100,000 residents.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/311045_fbistaffing11.html

[maxsolomon]

1. anyone want to join up to do bush & gonzales' bidding?

didn't think so.

i'd do it, but then i'd have to give up drugs.