U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Revised 7/16/98 pm

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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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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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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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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...

EDUCATION AND TRAINING REQUIREMENTS FOR BIG CITY POLICE OFFICERS INCREASE, STARTING SALARIES REMAIN FLAT

WASHINGTON, DC - From 1990 to 2000, police departments serving cities with a population of 250,000 or more increased their classroom and field training requirements for new officers from a median of 1,280 hours to 1,480 hours, the...

OVER 18,000 CHARGED WITH FEDERAL MONEY LAUNDERING FROM 1994 THROUGH 2001

WASHINGTON, D.C. - About 18,500 defendants faced federal money laundering charges in U.S. courts during the years 1994 through 2001, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported today. Approximately 10,600 of these...

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...

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...

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...

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...

STATES REPORTED MORE THAN 2,000 ARREST-RELATED DEATHS FROM 2003 THROUGH 2005

Homicides by Officers Made Up More Than Half of Such Fatalities

WASHINGTON - Forty-seven states and the District of Columbia reported 2,002 arrest-related deaths during the three years from 2003 through...