From an AFP/Yahoo News story:

For the first time since the city came under American control, Iraqi police cars escorted by US forces started joint patrols of Baghdad's streets, the scene of widespread violence and looting after last week's collapse of Saddam's regime.

Great -- er, isn't it?

Five Iraqi police cars, accompanied by two US marine Humvees, left the east Baghdad headquarters of the Iraqi police academy at 4:00 pm (1200 GMT) to patrol different areas of the capital, an AFP correspondent reported.

Five police cars. Five. Maybe not so great.

Accoding to my (2001) copy of The World Almanac, Baghdad's population is 4,797,000. The population of New York City is 7,322,564 -- about one and a half times the population of Baghdad.

I can assure you that policing New York City requires more than seven and a half police cars