Ask Nick and Gregg; Bonnie's Favorite Son-In-Laws.

 

Ask the Ruminerds; Serial Experiments Mane

 

Joel: I've seen it...personally I prefer Swine's Gate when it comes to...reality-warping type Animalme's

Gus: You sure that isn't just because it's that Animalme where it has that one really girly character who's actually a guy and you simp for him.

Joel: He's designed to look like a girl, his voice actress is a girl, and eventually we end up in a timeline where he is a girl! I simp for girl Luka, not guy Luka. Girl Luka is Waifu tier, and it's not gay at all.

Gus: Whatever you need to tell yourself buddy...

Joel: *Snorts* Whatever...anyway yeah...Serial Experiments Mane. Yeah it's a good series...the concept of like...losing your physical self to become a completely digital consciousness always makes for an interesting story, and an increasingly and frighteningly relevant one as we draw ever closer to being able to digitize someone's brain. I mean, there's so much you can explore, like "What is the nature of self?" and,  "If you are nothing but a consciousness without a body, are you really you anymore?" and hell, where does the concept of a soul play into all this?

Dawn: It's creepy is what it is...I'd never want to have my brain uploaded into a computer.

Joel: But you'd live forever!

Vernon: But like you said earlier, would that even be you? It could be just a copy o' you, and the real you dies with yer body.

Gus: And who would want to live forever? Especially in like...a digital cloud...I mean let's say under the best circumstances you live until the end of time itself...my consciousness would have probably devolved into a babbling senseless lunatic out of sheer boredom.

Broomie: And the worst circumstance would be...?

Gus: That wolverine thing...where the longer you exist, the higher the probability you'll get trapped somewhere for the rest of eternity...that's of course if they uploaded your body to a fully animate digital replica.

Dawn: More likely you'd be uploaded to some sort of stationary computer for safety reasons...so you'd just be stuck in one place...*Shudders*

Joel: Jeeze guys, so grim...I mean, I was too busy thinking about how you could just place your consciousness in your own VR replica of your real life, but like the perfect version. Like actually going to heaven, only unlike the religious concept of heaven, a digital version for your disembodied consciousness is something real....well, real enough. You can confirm it exists is what I'm saying. No risk of dying and just...y'know...stopping existing altogether.

Vernon: That's o'course iffin' you aren't subject to the whims of like...whoever controls the computer....

Dawn: Oh, imagine that...Ugh...*Shudders*, you'd basically be a slave to the programmer. You'd lose your free will...it'd be like that game Biosheep. 

Gus: "Sit, would you kindly. Stand, would you kindly..."

Broomie: What a worse fate than just losing your concept of self. Having it forcefully taken from you...yeesh...

Joel: Jeeze, you guys are all 'glass half full' kinda mammals aren't you. I never realized that before.

Vernon: Hey, I'm just sayin' I'd rather take my chances with gettin' into Asgrowl over gettin' saved to a memory stick. At least I know all the risks with the first one...

Gus: Looks like you're the only one of us who's gonna be a willing subject for digitally eternity then, eh Joel?

Joel: Are you kidding, rut no!

Broomie: But what about all that stuff you just said before?

Joel: What about all that stuff you guys just said!? You think it went in one ear and out the other? Kuzco no! You guys have got me so scared I think I don't want to even look at a computer for the next few hours, let alone consider putting my brain in it...*Laughs* Now I'm hoping for some kind of was that'll set technology back a few hundred years just so there's no chance I'll live long enough to see that technology come to pass.

Gus: Sounds like someone poured out half your glass...

Ask 270; ZPD and it's History

 

Bogo: Ah, well I suppose the roots of the ZPD started after the events of the Native Wolf War in 1666 A.P. The following year, the Norwulff settled district of Alpine Glade would go on to establish Zootopia's first standing army, and over the next decade the other districts would follow suit. Although it would take about another century before those standing armies merged into one, and then went on to diverge into two distinct factions that would serve as the foundation for both the modern ZPD and the Zootopian reserve military. 

In 1769 the 'Zootopian Civilian Defense Patrol', or ZCDP was founded in an official capacity, brought together under former general Barnabus Lionheart, who would act as its first Chief. Though largely staffed by Wolves and Lions initially, over the years it would expand to officers of all spots and stripes. The Zootopian Civilian Defense Patrol name stuck around until 1902, when it took on the Zootopian Police Department titling we know today.

As for how many officers and detectives we have, well I couldn't tell you the exact numbers. We do have roughly three hundred or so employees working at District one alone, although not all of them are officers who work a beat. And though you've probably heard of Precincts one through four, there are eighty precincts across all the districts total, with a new one expected to open in Little Rodentia some time next summer.