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| | Bureau of Justice Statistics Law Enforcement Statistics |
 | | Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS), conducted every 3 to 4 years, collects data from over 3,000 State and local law enforcement agencies, including all those that employ 100 or more sworn officers and a nationally representative sample of smaller agencies. |
 | | Data are obtained on the organization and administration of police and sheriffs' departments including agency responsibilities, operating expenditures, job functions of sworn and civilian employees, officer salaries and special pay, demographic characteristics of officers, weapons and armor policies, education and training requirements, computers and information systems, vehicles, special units, and community policing activities. |
 | | 2001 State Police Traffic Stop Data Collection Procedures collected data from the Nation's 49 State law enforcement agencies with traffic patrol responsibility about their policies for recording race and ethnicity data for persons in traffic stops. |
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