Editing Pittsburgh (section)

===Law enforcement===
[[File:Pittsburgh Police Vehicles.JPG|thumb|A [[Ford Taurus]] and a [[Chevrolet Impala]] belonging to the [[Pittsburgh Police]]]]
The area's largest law enforcement agency is the [[Pittsburgh Police|Pittsburgh Bureau of Police]], with close to 850 sworn officers. The city also has separate housing and school police departments. Other agencies also provide police protection within the city because of overlapping jurisdictional boundaries. The [[Allegheny County Sheriff]] focuses on jail and [[Allegheny County Courthouse|courthouse]] security. The [[Allegheny County Police Department|Allegheny County Police]] primarily patrols county-owned parks and airports, while providing detective/investigatory functions for smaller suburbs and the [[Port Authority of Allegheny County|Port Authority police]] patrols rapid transit. [[Pennsylvania State Police]] Troop B provides patrols for the city and immediate suburbs.

The county's lead law enforcement officer is [[Allegheny County District Attorney]] [[Stephen Zappala]] while the [[Allegheny County Medical Examiner]] heads forensics. Crimes of a federal nature are covered by the [[United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania#United States Attorneys|U.S. Attorney for Western Pennsylvania]].