By December UNMIS, with 9,955 uniformed personnel in the field, had nearly reached its authorized level of 10,000.
New York City currently has about 35,400 officers, nearly 2,500 below its authorized head count of 37,838.
In Miami, the police department has only 883 officers, well below its authorized strength of 1,045 officers.
Even as the city continues to grow in population, with record numbers of visitors, the police force, at 35,400 officers, remains well below its authorized strength of nearly 38,000.
With 44 employees having taken early retirement, the office's staff is now 18 percent below the authorized level.
For example, NSF saw its authorized spending level lowered from $8.2 billion to $7.5 billion for the 2011 fiscal year that begins in October President Obama has requested the latter and its 2015 authorization would shrink from $10.7 billion to $10.2 billion.
The GAO also noted that EOIR "does not have efficient practices for hiring new immigration judges, which has contributed to immigration judges being staffed below authorized levels". GAO computed that it took an average of 742 days to hire new judges from 2011 through August 2016.
The planned increase would be from an authorized level of 512,000 last year.
Mexican productivity remains below its 1980 level.
Private sector productivity is still below its precrisis level, however.
