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More than 12,000 local police departments were operating in the United States during 2013. A local police department is a general purpose law enforcement agency, other than a sheriff's office, that is operated by a unit of local government, such as a town, city, township, or county. Tribal police are classified as local police in Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) data collections.
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State and Local Law Enforcement Training Academies, 2013
Presents findings on the basic training programs of more than 600 state and local law enforcement training academies, including data on program content, recruits, and instructors. |
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Summary (PDF 250K) | PDF (1.2M) | ASCII file (33K) | Comma-delimited format (CSV) (Zip format 68K)
Part of the State and Local Law Enforcement Training Academies Series
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National Sources of Law Enforcement Employment Data
This report describes and compares three law enforcement employment data sources: 1) the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, 2) the Census Bureau's Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll (ASPEP), and 3) the Bureau of Justice Statistics' Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA). |
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PDF (1.8M) | ASCII file (48K) | Comma-delimited format (CSV) (Zip format 23K)
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Local Police Departments, 2013: Equipment and Technology
Presents findings on local police departments by population served in 2013, including comparisons with previous survey years. |
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Press Release (8KB) | Summary (PDF 243KB) | PDF (640KB) | ASCII file (25KB) | Comma-delimited format (.csv) (Zip format 38KB)
Part of the Local Police Departments Series
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Local Police Departments, 2013: Equipment and Technology
AN ESTIMATED 32 PERCENT OF LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS WERE USING BODY-WORN CAMERAS IN 2013 |
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Press Release
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Local Police Departments, 2013: Personnel, Policies, and Practices
Presents findings on local police departments by population served in 2013, including comparisons with previous surveys dating back to 1987. |
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Press Release | Executive Summary (PDF 85K) | PDF (751K) | ASCII file (36K) | Comma-delimited format (.csv) (Zip format 46K)
Part of the Local Police Departments Series
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Requests for Police Assistance, 2011
STUDY FINDS SOME RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN PERCEPTIONS OF POLICE BEHAVIOR DURING CONTACT WITH THE PUBLIC |
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Press Release
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Hiring and Retention of State and Local Law Enforcement Officers, 2008 - Statistical Tables
Presents the results of a special survey administered to a nationally representative sample of agencies that participated in the 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies. |
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PDF (995K) | ASCII file (36K) | Comma-delimited format (CSV) (Zip format 89K)
Part of the Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies Series
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Victimizations Not Reported to the Police, 2006-2010
NEARLY 3.4 MILLION VIOLENT CRIMES PER YEAR WENT UNREPORTED
TO POLICE FROM 2006 TO 2010 |
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Press Release
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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. |
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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
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Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, 2009
NEARLY 1.2 MILLION FORENSIC REQUESTS TO PUBLICLY FUNDED CRIME LABS WERE BACKLOGGED AT YEAREND 2009, UNCHANGED FROM 2008 |
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Press Release
Part of the Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories Series
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Local law enforcement officer |
An employee of a local law enforcement agency who is an officer sworn to carry out law
enforcement duties. Examples of this class are sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, chiefs of
police, city police officers, and sworn personnel of law enforcement subunits of port
and transit authorities. For national level general data, this class includes
campus police officers employed by of local city and community college
districts.
Private campus police are excluded. |
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Sworn officers |
Persons formally authorized to make arrests while acting within the scope of explicit
legal authority. |
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