Table 74 Data Declaration
Full-time Law Enforcement Employees, by Population Group, Percent Male and Female, 2011
The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.
General comments
- This table provides the total number of law enforcement employees, total officers, and total civilians broken down by population group. The totals also are broken down by percent male and percent female.
- Suburban areas include law enforcement agencies in cities with less than 50,000 inhabitants and county law enforcement agencies that are within a Metropolitan Statistical Area.
- Suburban areas exclude all metropolitan agencies associated with a principal city. The agencies associated with suburban areas also appear in other groups within this table.
Methodology
- The information in this table is derived from law enforcement employee counts (as of October 31, 2011) submitted by participating agencies.
- The UCR Program defines law enforcement officers as individuals who ordinarily carry a firearm and a badge, have full arrest powers, and are paid from governmental funds set aside specifically to pay sworn law enforcement.
- Civilian employees include full-time agency personnel such as clerks, radio dispatchers, meter attendants, stenographers, jailers, correctional officers, and mechanics.
Population groups
The UCR Program uses the following population group designations:
Population Group |
Political Label |
Population Range |
---|---|---|
I |
City |
250,000 and more |
II |
City |
100,000 to 249,999 |
III |
City |
50,000 to 99,999 |
IV |
City |
25,000 to 49,999 |
V |
City |
10,000 to 24,999 |
VI1, 2 |
City |
Less than 10,000 |
VIII (Nonmetropolitan County) 2 |
County |
N/A |
IX (Metropolitan County) 2 |
County |
N/A |
1Includes universities and colleges to which no population is attributed.
2Includes state police to which no population is attributed.
Population estimation
The FBI calculated 2011 state growth rates using the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 decennial state/national population figures and 2011 provisional state/national population estimates. The FBI then estimated population figures for city jurisdictions by applying the 2011 state growth rate to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data.