Some actual numbers: So this isn't a case of thousands of police, ten resisting cases. A second criticism I have that isn't addressed is how many of those officers listed are non-arresting or non-active police officers. I imagine a FBI agent who specializes in busting down doors is going to do a lot more resisting arrest than the average cop in a suburb.WNYC looked at over 51,000 cases where someone was charged with "resisting arrest" since 2009. They found that 40 percent of those cases — over 20,000 — were committed by just 5 percent of all the police officers on the force. And 15 percent of officers accounted for a majority of all "resisting arrest" charges.
The New York Police Department is made up of 35,000 officers, and just a minority of them have sent people into court for "resisting arrest."