BJS Acting Director's 2023 Yearend and 2024 Preview Message

Watch BJS Acting Director Kevin M. Scott, PhD, discuss highlights from 2023 and previews of 2024

“BJS had many firsts in 2023. We published results from our first-ever survey of law enforcement officers and our first estimates of criminal victimization for the 22 largest states. And for the first time in nearly a decade, we published estimates on the work of publicly funded forensic crime laboratories.”