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Arrest-Related Deaths
The Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD) component of the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program
(DCRP) is a national census of all manners of arrest-related deaths and includes all
civilian deaths that occurred during, or shortly after, state or local law enforcement
personnel engaged in an arrest or restraint process.
Census of Federal Law Enforcement Officers
Collects data from all federal law enforcement agencies with arrest and firearms
authority. Data collected include the number of officers working in the areas of
criminal investigation and law enforcement, police patrol and response, security and
protection, court operations, and corrections, by agency and state.
Census of Law Enforcement Aviation Units (CLEAU)
Collects data from all law enforcement agencies with 100 or more sworn officers that
operate a fixed-wing aircraft or helicopter. Data collected includes the locations,
available assets and range, personnel, expenditures, and functions of these units, as
well as information related to the capabilities and resources that each could provide
in the case of a national emergency.
Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies
Collects data on the number and types of staff employed at state and local law
enforcement training facilities, budgets, sources of funds, number of officers trained,
and policies and practices. In addition to basic organizational data, the survey
collects information on training curriculum issues critical to current law enforcement
policy development.
Census of Medical Examiner and Coroner (ME/C) Offices
Provides data on the personnel, budgets, and workload of medical examiner and coroner
offices by type of office and size of jurisdiction. The census gathers information on
the number of unidentified human decedents handled by these offices, record-keeping
practices, and use of national databases for unidentified remains.
Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories
Provides a comprehensive look at the forensic services provided by federal, state, and
local crime labs across the nation and the resources devoted to completing the work.
Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies
Provides data on all state and local law enforcement agencies operating nationwide.
Data collected include the number of sworn and civilian personnel by state and type of
agency, and functions performed by each agency.
Census of Tribal Justice Agencies in American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal Jurisdictions (CTJA02)
Provides detailed information gathered on tribal law enforcement agencies, tribal
courts and services, and criminal record systems from the Census of Tribal Justice
Agencies in American Indian Jurisdictions.
City-Level Survey of Crime Victimization and Citizen Attitudes
The Bureau Jutice Statistics in a joint effort with the Office of Community Oriented
Policing Services (COPS,) conducted victimization surveys in 12 selected cities. The
standard National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) instrument was used with questions
about citizen perceptions of community policing and neighborhood issues.
Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP)
Collects inmate death records from each of the nation's 50 state prison
systems and approximately 2,800 local jail jurisdictions.
Human Trafficking Reporting System (HTRS)
The Human Trafficking Reporting System (HTRS) was developed in 2007 to collect data on
alleged human trafficking incidents from state and local law enforcement agencies.
Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS)
Conducted periodically since 1987, LEMAS collects data from over 3,000 general purpose
state and local law enforcement agencies, including all those that employ 100 or more
sworn officers and a nationally representative sample of smaller agencies.
National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
Since 1929, the Uniform Crime
Reporting (UCR)
program has collected information about crimes known to the law enforcement and
arrests.
National Survey of DNA Crime Laboratories
Provides national data on publicly operated forensic crime laboratories that perform
DNA analyses. Data are collected on personnel, budgets, workloads, equipment,
procedures, policies, and data processing. BJS first surveyed forensic crime
laboratories in 1998, focusing solely on agencies that performed DNA analysis. The
National Institute of Justice (NIJ) funded the 1998 study as part of a DNA Laboratory
Improvement Program.
Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS)
Provides detailed information on the characteristics of persons who had some type of
contact with police during the year, including those who contacted the police to
report a crime or were pulled over in a traffic stop. The PPCS interviews a nationally
representative sample of residents age 16 or older as a supplement to the National
Crime Victimization Survey. The survey enables BJS to examine the perceptions of
police behavior and response during these encounters.
State Police Traffic Stop Data Collection Procedures
Collected data from state law enforcement agencies with traffic patrol responsibility
about their policies for recording race and ethnicity data for persons in traffic
stops. Basic information was obtained on the circumstances under which demographic
data were collected for traffic-related stops and whether this information was stored
in an electronically accessible format. The data collection was not designed to obtain
available agency databases containing traffic-stop records.
Survey of Campus Law Enforcement Agencies
Provides data describing campus law enforcement agencies serving U.S. 4-year
universities or colleges with 2,500 or more students. Also surveyed were 2-year
institutions with 2,500 or more students and a sample of 4-year institutions with 1,000
to 2,499 students. Data were collected on personnel, functions, expenditures and pay,
operations, equipment, computers and information systems, community policing
activities, specialized units, and emergency preparedness activities.
Survey of Law Enforcement Gang Units (SLEGU)
Provides data from all law enforcement agencies with 100 or more sworn officers and at
least one officer dedicated primarily to the problem of gang activity. Data are
collected on gang unit demographics, selection criteria, training, operations, and
workload, as well as summary measures of gang activity.