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National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)

Background on the collection of reported crime data

Since 1930, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program has collected information about crimes known to and arrests made by law enforcement. The UCR Summary Reporting System (SRS) collected monthly counts of the number of crimes known to law enforcement from thousands of agencies throughout the United States. Information on the number of crimes known...

Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies 

Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS 
Advance for Release at 5 P.M. EDT  
Friday, July 2, 1993                           
202-307-0784
 
     The nation's more than 17,000 state and local
 police and sheriff's departments had 840,647 
full-time employees as of June 30, 1992, the 
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced
 today. BJS, a Department of Justice agency, 
said 603,465...

Local Police Departments, 1993 

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 5 P.M. EDT         BJS
SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1996            202/307-0784

INCREASE SEEN IN NUMBER OF BLACKS, HISPANICS AND
WOMEN IN NATION'S LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Local police departments
are continuing to add blacks, Hispanics and women
to their ranks and improve educational
requirements for entrants, according to a report
released today by the Department of Justice...

Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 1996 

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Revised 7/16/98 pm

ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EDT       BJS
SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 1998              202/307-0784
        
THE NUMBER OF STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT 
OFFICERS ASSIGNED TO PATROL AND RESPONSE
DUTIES   GREW BY 19 PERCENT IN FOUR YEARS

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The number of 
full-time state and local law enforcement 
officers whose regularly assigned duties 
included responding to calls for service...

Justice Expenditure and Employment in the United States

ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EDT Bureau of Justice Statistics
SUNDAY, MAY 2, 2004 Contact: Stu Smith 202/307-0784
  After hours: 301-983-9354

NATION SPENDS $167 BILLION ON CRIMINAL AND CIVIL JUSTICE SERVICES
Since 1982, Justice Expenditures Average 8 Percent Growth Annually

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Local, state and federal governments spent a record $167 billion on direct expenditures for police protection, judicial and legal services...

Citizen Complaints about Police Use of Force

ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EDT Bureau of Justice Statistics
SUNDAY, June 25, 2006 bjs.gov
  Contact: Sheila Jerusalem 202/616-3227
  After hours: 410-585-0565

CITIZENS COMPLAINED MORE THAN 26,000 TIMES IN 2002 ABOUT EXCESSIVE POLICE FORCE

EVIDENCE IN ABOUT 8% OF COMPLAINTS JUSTIFIED DISCIPLINARY ACTION

WASHINGTON - Large state and local law enforcement agencies with 59 percent of the nation's sworn officers received 26,556...

Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 2004

ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 9 A.M. EDT Bureau of Justice Statistics
THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 2007 Contact: Stu Smith 202/307-0784
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs After hours: 301-983-9354
   

LAW ENFORCEMENT EMPLOYMENT GREW BETWEEN 2000-2004 ACCORDING TO JUSTICE DEPARTMENT STUDY

WASHINGTON - There were about 1.1 million full-time state and local law enforcement employees in the U.S., including about 732,000 sworn personnel as of September 30, 2004, the Justice...

State Police Traffic Stop Data Collection Procedures

Collected data from state law enforcement agencies with traffic patrol responsibility about their policies for recording race and ethnicity data for persons in traffic stops. Basic information was obtained on the circumstances under which demographic data were collected for traffic-related stops and whether this information was stored in an electronically accessible format. The data collection was not designed to obtain available agency databases containing traffic-stop...

Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS)

Conducted periodically since 1987, the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) core collects data from over 3,000 general-purpose, county, and local law enforcement agencies, including all those that employ 100 or more full-time sworn officers and a nationally representative sample of smaller agencies. Data are obtained on agency responsibilities, operating expenditures, job functions of sworn and civilian employees, officer salaries and special pay, demographic...