U.S. Population Who Had Face-to-Face Contact With Police, by Sex, Race, Ethnicity, and Reason for Contact: 1996 statistics


	Number having contact (1,000)				Number having contact (1,000)			Percent having contact				Percent having contact

Reason for		Sex		Race					Sex		Race
contact	Total					Hispanic/1	Other	Total					Hispanic/1	Other
	(1,000)	Male	Female	White	Black			(1,000)	Male	Female	White	Black

Population total........................................................................	215,529	104,205	111,324	163,883	25,394	17,159	9,094	(X)	(X)	(X)	(X)	(X)	(X)	(X)

For any reason........................................................................	44,556	23,399	21,158	36,262	3,964	2,593	1,738	20.7	22.5	19.0	22.1	15.6	15.1	19.1
I reported a crime........................................................................	12,722	6,351	6,371	10,640	1,049	634	399	5.9	6.1	5.7	6.5	4.1	3.7	4.4
I asked police for help........................................................................	10,087	4,735	5,352	8,393	744	500	450	4.7	4.5	4.8	5.1	2.9	2.9	4.9
I reported a problem........................................................................	7,892	4,194	3,698	6,449	508	557	378	3.7	4.0	3.3	3.9	2.0	3.2	4.2
Police ticketed me........................................................................	10,947	6,337	4,610	8,988	815	865	278	5.1	6.1	4.1	5.5	3.2	5.0	3.1
I was in a traffic accident........................................................................	5,454	2,677	2,777	4,501	501	241	210	2.5	2.6	2.5	2.7	2.0	1.4	2.3
I witnessed an accident........................................................................	2,326	1,076	1,250	2,007	151	102	65	1.1	1.0	1.1	1.2	0.6	0.6	0.7

I was the victim of a crime........................................................................	6,755	3,108	3,646	5,753	343	360	299	3.1	3.0	3.3	3.5	1.4	2.1	3.3
I witnessed a crime........................................................................	3,467	1,934	1,532	2,776	419	179	93	1.6	1.9	1.4	1.7	1.6	1.0	1.0
Police suspected me of a crime........................................................................	2,611	1,362	1,249	1,945	197	326	143	1.2	1.3	1.1	1.2	0.8	1.9	1.6
Police asked why I was there........................................................................	2,690	1,578	1,112	2,070	361	84	175	1.2	1.5	1.0	1.3	1.4	0.5	1.9
Police had a warrant for my arrest........................................................................	492	195	297	378	84	30	(NA)	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.2	(NA)
I had a casual encounter........................................................................	8,042	4,104	3,938	6,901	640	327	174	3.7	3.9	3.5	4.2	2.5	1.9	1.9
I attended a community meeting........................................................................	2,437	1,201	1,236	1,986	285	32	134	1.1	1.2	1.1	1.2	1.1	0.2	1.5
Some other reason........................................................................	14,066	7,342	6,723	11,760	1,075	724	506	6.5	7.0	6.0	3.9	2.0	3.2	4.2

NA Not available.
1 Persons of Hispanic origin may be of any race.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Police Use of Force, National Collection of Data, NCJ-165040, November 1997, revised January 5, 1998.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/lawenf.htm

*This publication represents the second annual report to theCongress as required by Section 210402 of the Violent CrimeControl and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which mandates theacquisition of data by the Attorney General on the "use ofexcessive force by law enforcement officers." The findingsreported are the result of the joint efforts of the Bureau ofJustice Statistics (BJS) and the National Institute of Justice(NIJ) to undertake the data collection and research activitiesoutlined in the initial report.

To learn more about the use of force requires an understandingof the reasons for and the results of police-citizen encounters.During 1996, BJS carried out a special survey of 6,421residents age 12 or older entitled the Police-Public ContactSurvey. The survey was designed to obtain information to helpguide future development of a final questionnaire on this topic.The pilot survey was not intended as a source of detailed orprecise statistics on the topic of police use of force. However, its results do provide preliminary estimates of theprevalence of citizen contacts with the police, includingcontacts in which police use force.

One of the most significant developments from fielding thePolice-Public Contact Survey is that we are now able toestimate, for the first time, the prevalence of all kinds ofencounters between the police and members of the public,favorable as well as unfavorable. *

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These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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352. U.S. Population Who Had Face-to-Face Contact With Police, by Sex, Race, Ethnicity, and Reason for Contact: 1996