NCJ Number
309076
Date Published
November 2024
Length
46 pages
Abstract
This report focuses on the characteristics of campus law enforcement agencies serving 4-year institutions with a full-time student enrollment of 1,000 or more students. The report also includes selected findings on other campus law enforcement agencies including those serving 2-year public institutions. Findings in this report are based on the 2021 Survey of Campus Law Enforcement Agencies (SCLEA) conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The SCLEA collects data on agency staffing, operations, budget, policies, responsibilities, training, and equipment. The survey includes campus law enforcement agencies serving institutions funded both publicly and privately.
Highlights:
- Nearly 1,300 campus law enforcement agencies employed about 17,600 full-time sworn officers and 25,000 full-time civilians at 4-year institutions serving 1,000 or more full-time students on the first day of the 2021–2022 academic year.
- In campus law enforcement agencies serving 4-year institutions with 1,000 or more students in 2021, about 82% of full-time sworn officers were male and 18% were female.
- At 4-year institutions serving 2,500 or more full-time students, the percentage of full-time sworn officers who were white or black decreased from 2004 (69% white, 21% black) to 2021 (61% white, 19% black), while the percentage who were Hispanic increased from 6% to 11%.
- Most campus law enforcement agencies serving 4-year institutions with 1,000 or more students that required in-service training covered the topics of diversity (90%), de-escalation (89%), mental health (87%), bias or hate crimes (87%), crisis intervention (84%), and implicit bias (81%).