Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS 
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     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...

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1996       202/633-3047

COLLEGE CAMPUSES GUARDED BY NEARLY 11,000 POLICE
           OFFICERS -- MOST ARE ARMED



     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Last year, there were
nearly 11,000 full-time sworn police officers on
the campuses of four-year colleges and
universities with 2,500 or more students,
according to a first-of-its-kind study released
today by the Justice...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1999               202/307-0784 
                      
PERSONNEL INCREASES IN LOCAL POLICE AND SHERIFFS'
DEPARTMENTS

     WASHINGTON, D.C.   Local police departments
had an estimated 531,496 full-time employees as of
June 1997, the Justice Department's Bureau of
Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today.  Of these
employees about 420,000 were sworn personnel
(officers with arrest powers).  Local police
employment was up by an...

Justice Department Awards Over $42 Million to Improve Criminal History Records

Funds Enhance Identification of Ineligible Gun Purchasers and Sex Offenders

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20—The Justice Department today is awarding more than $42 million to 55 states and territories to continue automating and improving the quality of criminal history records, which can help law enforcement with background checks for guns and other purposes. The awards mark...

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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...

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2001      202/307-0784

COMMUNITY POLICING IMPACTS 86 PERCENT OF U.S. POPULATION SERVED BY LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS

WASHINGTON, D.C.- From 1997 through 1999 the percentage of local police officers throughout the nation who were designated community policing officers increased from 4 percent to 21 percent, according to a new report from the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice...

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SUNDAY, March, 11, 2001      202/307-0784

FORCE OR THREATENED FORCE USED IN LESS THAN 1 PERCENT OF ALL POLICE-PUBLIC INTERACTIONS

Half of all Contacts with Law Enforcement Officers are in Traffic Stops

WASHINGTON, D.C. - An estimated 43.8 million people 16 years old or older, or about 21 percent of the population of that age, had contact with the...