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Survey of Law Enforcement Personnel in School (SLEPS)

Closing Date
A new data collection focused on the activities, roles, and responsibilities of law enforcement agencies and personnel who have responsibilities for interacting with and working in K-12 public schools. The tasks will require instrument design, a field test of that design, and a data collection that includes a nationally represented sample of law enforcement personnel working in schools.

Sheriffs' Office Personnel, 1993-2013

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THE NUMBER OF FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES IN SHERIFFS' OFFICES INCREASED NEARLY 60 PERCENT FROM 1993 TO 2013

WASHINGTON – Between 1993 and 2013, the number of full-time employees in U.S. sheriffs' offices increased 57 percent...

Arrest-Related Deaths Program, 2017-2019

Closing Date
Research and data-collection activities for the Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD) portion of the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP) of the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) annual data collections on deaths in custody. The DCRP data collection has three components: local jails, state prisons, and law enforcement agencies. The third component and the focus of this announcement is on individual-level data on persons who died in...