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Article: Statistically speaking: Bureau of Justice Statistics answers questions officers have about their jobs, criminals, victims, what other agencies are up to and more.
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- Law Enforcement Technology
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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What percent of people making face-to-face contact with police indicated their reason for contact was to report a crime or other problem? The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) knows.
-- More than 25 percent of 45.3 million people, according to "Contacts between Police and the Public: Findings from the 2002 National Survey," released in April.
What racial group in the United States experiences violent crime at a much higher rate than members of any other racial group? BJS knows.
-- The average annual violent crime rate among American Indians from 1992 to 2001 (101 per 1,000 persons age 12 or over) was about 2.5 times the national rate (41 per ...