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Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS)

Public Comments Requested on the Proposed Extension and Update of the Prison Population Reports: Summary of Sentenced Population Movement - National Prisoner Statistics

BJS encourages comments for 30 days until October 16, 2019, on a proposed update to a currently approved data collection: 2020 Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS). Your comments to BJS’s request to the Office of Management and Budget, published in the Federal Register, should address points such as—

  • whether the proposed data collection is necessary, including whether the information will have practical utility
  • the accuracy...

Public Comments Requested on a Proposed Update to the 2020 Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS)

BJS encourages comments for 60 days until October 18, 2019, on the proposed extension and update of a currently approved data collection: Prison Population Reports: Summary of Sentenced Population Movement - National Prisoner Statistics. Your comments to BJS’s request to the Office of Management and Budget, published in the Federal Register, should address points such as—

  • whether the proposed data collection is necessary, including...

BJS Proposes Data Collection Reinstatement and Update: 2018 Police Public Contact Survey

BJS encourages comments for 60 days until February 20, 2018, on a data collection reinstatement and update: 2018 Police Public Contact Survey. Your comments to BJS's requests to the Office of Management and Budget, published in the Federal Register, should address points such as—

  • whether the proposed data collection is necessary, including whether the information will have practical utility
  • the accuracy of the agency's...

Police Use of Nonfatal Force, 2002-11

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2015                                          Contact: Kara McCarthy (202) 307-1241
HTTP://WWW.BJS.GOV/ After hours: (202) 598-9320

REPORT: FROM 2002-11 BLACKS WERE 2.5 TIMES MORE LIKELY THAN WHITES TO EXPERIENCE NONFATAL FORCE BY POLICE

WASHINGTON – In a study released today by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), an annual average of 44 million U.S...

Contacts between Police and the Public, 2008

ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 10:00 A.M. EDT Bureau of Justice Statistics
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2011                             Contact: Kara McCarthy (202) 307-1241
HTTP://WWW.BJS.GOV/ After hours: (202) 598-0556

CONTACTS BETWEEN POLICE AND THE PUBLIC DECLINED FROM 2002 TO 2008

Police used or threatened to use force in less than two percent of contacts

WASHINGTON—An estimated 40 million U.S. residents age 16 or older, or about 17...

Requests for Police Assistance, 2011

ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 10:00 A.M. EDT Bureau of Justice Statistics
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2013                          Contact: Kara McCarthy (202) 307-1241
HTTP://WWW.BJS.GOV/ After hours: (202) 598-9320

STUDY FINDS SOME RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN PERCEPTIONS OF POLICE BEHAVIOR DURING CONTACT WITH THE PUBLIC

WASHINGTON – An estimated 62.9 million U.S. residents age 16 or older, or about 26 percent of the population, had one or more contacts...

Police Use of Force

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ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 9 A.M. EST            BJS
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 22, 1997          202/307-0784

        
ONE IN FIVE U.S. RESIDENTS IN CONTACT WITH
POLICE DURING YEAR


     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An estimated 45 million
United States residents--one in five--have some
sort of face-to-face contact with law
enforcement officers annually, according to a
new Justice Department study.  Among those with
such contacts, a third seek...

Contacts between Police and the Public, 2005

ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:00 P.M. EDT Bureau of Justice Statistics
SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2007 Contact: Stu Smith 202/307-0784
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs After hours: 301-983-9354

POLICE STOP WHITE, BLACK AND HISPANIC DRIVERS AT SIMILAR RATES ACCORDING TO DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REPORT

WASHINGTON - An estimated 19 percent (43.5 million) of U.S. residents age 16 or older had a face-to-face contact with a police officer in 2005, according...