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Campus law enforcement officers patrol colleges and universities, providing a quicker response time to incidents on campus than local police, and offer campus-specific services not necessarily available from local policing organizations. Campus police forces can be comprised of sworn police officers, non-sworn security officers, or both. Campus law enforcement officers can have state, county, or city wide jurisdiction; others are limited to campus property. These findings are based on the 2011-12 survey of Campus Law Enforcement Agencies (CLEA).

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Campus Law Enforcement, 2011-12 Presents findings from a BJS survey of campus law enforcement agencies covering the 2011-12 academic year.
  Press Release | PDF (909K) | ASCII file (47K) | Comma-delimited format (CSV) (Zip format 37K)
Part of the Campus Law Enforcement Series

Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, 2009 Presents data on the more than 400 state, municipal, county, and federal crime laboratories operating in the United States during 2009.
  Press Release | PDF (861K) | ASCII file (36K) | Comma-delimited format (CSV) (Zip format 48K)
Part of the Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories Series

Contacts between Police and the Public, 2008 Presents findings from a nationally representative survey of nearly 60,000 residents age 16 or older about their contact with police during the 12 months prior to the interview.
  Press Release | PDF (932K) | ASCII file (48K) | Spreadsheet (Zip format 51K) | Codebooks and Datasets
Part of the Contacts between Police and the Public Series

Contacts between Police and the Public, 2008 CONTACTS BETWEEN POLICE AND THE PUBLIC DECLINED FROM 2002 TO 2008
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Part of the Contacts between Police and the Public Series

Campuses with 24-hour patrol and emergency telephone access to law enforcement, 2004-05 Table 4 from Campus Law Enforcement, 2004-05 Special Report
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Community policing activities of campus law enforcement agencies 2004-05 Table 9 from Campus Law Enforcement, 2004-05
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Campus Law Enforcement, 2004-05 Presents findings from a BJS survey of campus law enforcement agencies serving 4-year colleges and universities with 2,500 or more students.
  PDF (192K) | ASCII file (33K) | Spreadsheet (Zip format 33K)
Part of the Campus Law Enforcement Series

Law Enforcement Officers, 1975-1998 (Sworn Personnel) Presents the number of full-time sworn law enforcement officers, rate per 100,000 residents, and percent change since 1975 in the United States.
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Campus Law Enforcement Agencies, 1995 Presents data collected from nearly 600 campus law enforcement agencies serving 4-year colleges and universities with 2,500 or more students.
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Part of the Campus Law Enforcement Series

Campus Law Enforcement Agencies, 1995 This report provides 1995 data on the percentage of campus police agencies that use sworn or armed officers; selected responsibilities of campus law enforcement agencies that serve 4- year campuses with 2,500 or more students; and the percentage of students attending 4-year campuses served by a law enforcement agency that operates selected types of special units or programs.
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The Clery Act The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act was signed into law in 1990. It requires institutions of higher education that participate in federal financial aid programs to keep and disclose information about crime on and near campus. Clery Act statistics are available on the Campus Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool site.
 
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