Local Police

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1996            202/307-0784

INCREASE SEEN IN NUMBER OF BLACKS, HISPANICS AND
WOMEN IN NATION'S LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Local police departments
are continuing to add blacks, Hispanics and women
to their ranks and improve educational
requirements for entrants, according to a report
released today by the Department of Justice...

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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...

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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...

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...