Editing Palm Beach, Florida (section)

===Police===
The town has its own police department, established on October&nbsp;17, 1922. Prior to then, town marshal Joseph Borman served in the capacity of chief law enforcer as outlined in the 1911&nbsp;charter.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.townofpalmbeach.com/299/Historyof-thePolice-Department |title=History of the Police Department |publisher=Town of Palm Beach |access-date=April 18, 2020 |archive-date=August 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806050217/https://www.townofpalmbeach.com/299/Historyof-thePolice-Department |url-status=live }}</ref> The department employed 61&nbsp;[[Police officer|officers]] in 2018. With a population of 8,295&nbsp;people in 2018 according to the Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research, this translated to 7.35&nbsp;officers per 1,000&nbsp;people, compared to the Florida average of 2.49&nbsp;officers per 1,000&nbsp;people. In the same year, the department made 2,039&nbsp;arrests &ndash; equal to about 24,581&nbsp;arrests per 100,000&nbsp;people, the highest arrest rate in Florida and over sevenfold the state average. However, many arrests were in relation to non-violent crimes, such as those involving auto theft, criminal traffic citations, fraud, and scams. The police department reported no rapes or homicides in Palm Beach in 2018.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/20190819/palm-beach-police-dept-has-highest-arrest-rate-in-florida-but-what-does-that-actually-mean |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309195435/https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/20190819/palm-beach-police-dept-has-highest-arrest-rate-in-florida-but-what-does-that-actually-mean |archive-date=March 9, 2021 |title=Palm Beach Police Dept. has the highest arrest rate in Florida, but what does that actually mean? |date=August 19, 2019 |first=Wendy |last=Rhodes |newspaper=Palm Beach Daily News |access-date=April 23, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>