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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) annually compiles data concerning the felonious and accidental line-of-duty deaths and assaults of law enforcement officers and presents these statistics in Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA).
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...
CRIME RATE ESSENTIALLY UNCHANGED LAST YEAR U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 5 P.M. EST SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1994 BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS (202) 307-0784 CRIME RATE ESSENTIALLY UNCHANGED LAST YEAR WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The number of Americans who were the victims of crime remained essentially unchanged last year, according to a redesigned annual survey the Department of Justice published today. The new...
U.S. Department of Justice ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 5 P.M. EST BJS SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1994 202-307-0784 RECORD NUMBER OF HANDGUN CRIMES--NEARS ONE MILLION A YEAR WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The number of non-fatal crimes committed with a handgun rose to a record level during 1992, the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. Handguns were used in an estimated 917,500 non-fatal crimes...
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 5 P.M. EDT BJS WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1995 202-307-0784 YOUNGEST TEENS AT GREATEST CRIME RISK WASHINGTON, D.C. During 1993, the youngest age group surveyed--those 12 through 15 years old--had the greatest risk of being violent crime victims, the Department of Justice announced today. The risk decreased steadily with age, from 1 in 8 young people 12-15 years old...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BJS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1995 202-307-0784
FIVE STATES SELECTED FOR SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING
TO IMPROVE CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDKEEPING
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Maine, Mississippi, New
Mexico, West Virginia and Vermont will receive up
to $1 million each in federal funds to jump start
the automation of their criminal records.
Mississippi has computerized 7 percent of its
criminal history files, but...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 5 P.M. EDT BJS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1996 202/307-0784
CRIME VICTIMIZATION DROPS THREE PERCENT
FROM 1993 TO 1994
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Total violent and
property crime victimizations fell almost 3
percent from 1993 to 1994, the Justice Department
reported today. Violent crime rates leveled off
during that period, after falling 20 percent
between 1981 and 1986 and...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 5 P.M. EDT BJS
THURSDAY APRIL 11, 1996 202/307-0784
ONE-QUARTER OF THE CRIME VICTIMS WHO ARE SHOT
ARE YOUNG BLACK MALES
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A federal study of non-
fatal firearm injuries from crime shows that
almost 90 percent of such victims were male, 59
percent were black and 49 percent were from 15 to
24 years...
ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EDT BJS
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1996 202/633-3047
VICTIMS REPORT 9 PERCENT FEWER VIOLENT CRIMES LAST YEAR
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Violent crimes fell more than 9 percent
last year, the Department of Justice announced today. According
to preliminary estimates by the Department's Bureau of Justice
Statistics (BJS), there were an estimated 9.9 million violent
crimes during 1995, compared to about...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EST BJS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1997 202/633-3047
SIXTY PERCENT OF CONVICTED SEX OFFENDERS
ARE ON PAROLE OR PROBATION
Rapes and Sexual Assaults Decline
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- According to a report
released today by the Justice Department's Bureau
of Justice Statistics (BJS), on any given day in
1994 almost 60 percent of the 234,000 convicted
sex...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EDT BJS
SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1997 202/633-3047
VIOLENT CRIME DECLINED 12.4 PERCENT DURING 1995
Largest Drop in Survey History
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Between 1994 and 1995
violent crime--rape, robbery and assault--dropped
12.4 percent, the Justice Department's Bureau of
Justice Statistics (BJS) said today. The decline
was the largest since BJS' National Crime
Victimization Survey began...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BJS
FEBRUARY 25, 1997 202/633-3047
ABOUT 6,600 ATTEMPTS TO BUY GUNS
THWARTED BY BACKGROUND CHECKS EACH MONTH
SINCE BRADY LAW ENACTED
186,000 Blocked from March 1994 through June 1996
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- During the first 28
months of the Brady Act's effectiveness (March
1994 through last June) more than 186,000 illegal
over-the-counter gun sales were blocked by
background checks, the Justice Department's...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EST BJS
SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 1998 202/307-0784
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYS 74,500 LAW OFFICERS
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As of June 1996 the
federal government employed about 74,500 full-time
law enforcement officers authorized to make arrests
and carry a gun. This is up about 6 percent from
1993, the last time the survey was done, the
Justice...
HOMICIDE TRENDS IN THE UNITED STATES
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EST BJS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1999 202/307-0784
NATION'S LARGEST CITIES LEAD THE WAY
AS HOMICIDES FALL TO LOWEST RATE
IN THREE DECADES
WASHINGTON, D.C. The nation's murder rate
last year fell to its lowest level in three
decades, the Justice Department's Bureau of
Justice Statistics announced today. Much of...
Criminal Victimization 1997: Changes 1996-97
with Trends 1993-97 -- press release
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EST BJS
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1998 202/307-0784
VIOLENT CRIME FELL ALMOST 7 PERCENT LAST YEAR
DOWN MORE THAN 21 PERCENT SINCE 1993
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The nation's violent
crime rate fell almost 7 percent during 1997, the
Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics
(BJS)...
ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EDT BJS
SUNDAY, JULY 18, 1999 202/307-0784
U.S. VIOLENT CRIME RATE FELL 7 PERCENT IN 1998
27 PERCENT LOWER THAN IN 1993
Violent and Property Crimes at Lowest Levels Since Survey Began
WASHINGTON, D.C. The nation's violent crime rate fell 7
percent last year and was 27 percent lower than in 1993, the Justice
Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics...
ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EST BJS
SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2000 202/307-0784
NUMBER OF FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS
GREW 11 PERCENT IN TWO YEARS
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The number of federal law
enforcement officers grew by about 8,000 men and women, or
11 percent, from June 1996 through June 1998, the Justice
Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced
today. Approximately half of this...
ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. BJS
WEDNESDAY MAY 31, 2000 202/307-0784
CROSS-AGENCY FEDERAL ARREST DATA PUBLISHED FOR FIRST TIME
ALMOST HALF OF ARRESTS FOR DRUG OR IMMIGRATION OFFENSES
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Approximately 73 percent of the 106,139
federal arrests made during fiscal year 1998 were made by Department
of Justice law enforcement agencies--the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Drug...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
EMBARGOED UNTIL 4:30 P.M. EDT BJS
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2000 202/307-0784
FIREARMS ASSAULT INJURIES AND MURDERS FELL BETWEEN 1993 AND 1997
WASHINGTON, D.C. The number of gunshot wounds from
any type of crime fell nearly 40 percent during the five-year period
from 1993 through 1997, according to a new comprehensive Justice
Department report. The Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics
(BJS) cites...
EMBARGOED UNTIL 4:30 P.M. EDT BJS
SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2000 202/307-0784
NATIONAL VIOLENT CRIME RATE FALLS MORE THAN 10 PERCENT--
VIOLENT VICTIMIZATIONS DOWN ONE-THIRD SINCE 1993
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The nation's violent crime rate fell
by more than 10 percent during 1999, reaching the lowest level
since the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics
(BJS) started measuring it in 1973. There were an estimated
28.8...