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The?Bureau of Justice Statistics encourages comments for 60 days until May 12, 2020, on the proposed reinstatement and update of a previously approved data collection: 2020 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey. Your comments on BJS?s request to the Office of Management and Budget, which is published in the?Federal Register, should address points such as?
- whether the proposed data collection is necessary, including whether the information will have practical utility
- the accuracy of the agency?s estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of data, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
- whether and how the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected can be enhanced
- the burden of the data collection on respondents, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques.
BJS?s?Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey is the most comprehensive source of national data on general-purpose law enforcement agencies. It collects information from more than 3,000 state, county, and local law enforcement agencies about personnel, policies, and practices.?The survey has been used to produce nationally representative estimates on the demographic characteristics of sworn personnel, hiring practices, operations, equipment, technology, and agency policies and procedures.?
The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States. Jeffrey H. Anderson is the director.
For more information on BJS publications, data collections, data analysis tools, and funding opportunities,?visit?BJS online.
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