General Purpose Law Enforcement Agencies -- Number, Employment, and Expenditures statistics

[Includes both full-time and part-time employees. State police data are based on the 49 main state police agencies; Hawaii does not have a state police agency. Expenditure data cover fiscal years ending in year shown]


			1990				1993							1996

Type		Number of employees						Number of employees							Number of employees
of
Agency	Number				Number		Full-time			Part-time		Number		Full-time			Part-time
	of	Total	Sworn	Civilian	of							of
	agencies ¹				agencies ¹	Total	Sworn	Civilian	Total	Sworn	Civilian	agencies ¹	Total	Sworn	Civilian	Total	Sworn	Civilian

NUMBER

Total............................................................	15,430	812,110	590,626	221,484	17,120	828,435	622,913	205,522	87,875	42,890	44,985	18,769	921,978	663,535	258,443	97,770	47,712	50,058

Local police.......................................................................................................	12,288	513,596	387,534	126,062	12,361	474,072	373,554	100,518	58,146	28,186	29,960	13,578	521,985	410,956	111,029	61,453	30,976	30,477
Sheriff.............................................................	3,093	220,380	150,610	69,770	3,084	224,236	155,815	68,421	19,660	11,048	8,612	3,088	257,712	152,922	104,790	22,412	10,845	11,567
State police.......................................................	49	78,134	52,482	25,652	49	76,972	51,874	25,098	845	228	617	49	83,742	54,587	29,155	1,303	132	1,171
Special police....................................................	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	1,626	53,156	41,670	11,485	9,224	3,428	5,796	1,316	56,229	43,082	13,147	12,003	5,202	6,801
Texas constable.................................................	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)								738	2,310	1,988	322	599	557	42

PERCENT

Total............................................................	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Local police.......................................................................................................	79.6	63.2	65.6	56.9	72.2	57.2	60.0	48.9	66.2	65.7	66.6	72.3	56.6	61.9	43.0	62.9	64.9	60.9
Sheriff.............................................................	20.0	27.1	25.5	31.5	18.0	27.1	25.0	33.3	22.4	25.8	19.1	16.5	28.0	23.0	40.5	22.9	22.7	23.1
State police.......................................................	0.3	9.6	8.9	11.6	0.3	9.3	8.3	12.2	1.0	0.5	1.4	0.3	9.1	8.2	11.3	1.3	0.3	2.3
Special police....................................................	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	9.5	6.4	6.7	5.6	10.5	8.0	12.9	7.0	6.1	6.5	5.1	12.3	10.9	13.6
Texas constable.................................................	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)								3.9	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.6	1.2	0.1

1 The Number of agencies reported here is the result of a weighted sample and not an exact enumeration.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, State and Local Police Departments, 1990, February 1992.; and Local Police Departments, 1993, series NCJ 148822, April 1996 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 1996, series NCJ 164618, June 1998.

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* 1993

The Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey collects data from a nationally representative sample of the more than 17,000 publicly funded State and local law enforcement agencies in the United States. This report focuses on general purpose local police departments operated by a municipal or county government. Police departments with special jurisdictions such as parks, transit systems, airports, or school systems have been defined as special police and are not included. The population served categories used in this report are based on official 1990 Census Bureau counts for cities and counties. For some county police departments, the population served was derived by subtracting the population of cities within the county that were served by municipal police from the overall county population. All 854 State and local law enforcement agencies in the United States with 100 or more sworn officers (as reported in the 1992 BJS Directory Survey of Law Enforcement Agencies) received the full-length LEMAS questionnaire. The 854 self-representing (SR) agencies were supplemented by a nationally representative sample of agencies with fewer than 100 sworn officers. These non self-representing (NSR) agencies were chosen using a stratified random sample with cells based on the type of agency (local police, sheriff, or special police), size of population served, and number of sworn officers. The 2,416 NSR agencies received a slightly abbreviated version of the LEMAS questionnaire that was mailed to the SR agencies. The initial mailing of the survey questionnaire was conducted in August 1993. The pay period containing June 15, 1993, was used as the reference date for personnel-related questions and June 30, 1993, for other questions. The data were collected by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Justice Statistics. After two follow-up mailings and additional telephone calls as needed, a final total of 3,028 agencies responded to the LEMAS questionnaire, including 831 SR agencies and 2,197 NSR agencies. The overall response rate was 92.6%. The final database includes responses from 1,827 local police departments, 918 sheriffs' departments, 234 special police departments, and the 49 primary State police departments. The base weight for all SR agencies is 1. For NSR local and special police departments, the base weight is 8, and for NSR sheriffs' departments it is 4. The final weight associated with every agency, both SR and NSR, is the product of the base weight and a factor that adjusted for any non responding agencies in each cell. This agency nonresponse factor was based on number of sworn officers for SR agencies and on number of agencies for NSR agencies. Some responding agencies did not fully complete the LEMAS questionnaire. When an agency did not supply a response to an item, a donor agency was randomly selected from responding agencies in the same sample cell. The donor agency's value for the item was placed into the nonresponding agency's response field with an indicator that the value had been imputed. Complete documentation regarding sampling procedures and nonresponse adjustments is available upon request. Data on the number of employees and on the amount of agency expenditures in this report are not comparable with figures based on the BJS Survey of Criminal Justice Expenditure and Employment series. In the latter, these data are presented by governmental function, whereas in the LEMAS survey expenditures are classified by type of agency. For example, what might be attributed to sheriffs' departments in the LEMAS survey would be apportioned among various functions, such as police protection and corrections, in the expenditure and employment series. Also, the LEMAS figures for operating expenditures include employee benefits, but the expenditure and employment figures do not.

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