Law Enforcement Management and Administration Statistics, 1990 ...

Introduction
The LEMAS survey
The 1990 Law Enforcement Management
and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS)
survey questionnaire was mailed to ail
780 State and local law enforcement
agencies that reported employing 100 or
more sworn officers in tf1e 1986 Directory
Survey of Law Enforcement Agencies. In
addition, a sample of 2,338 agencies with
fewer than 100 officers received a slightly
abbreviated version of the questionnaire.
The initial mailing of the survey questionnaire
was conducted In July 1990. The
reference date for personnel-related
questions was the pay period Including
June 15, 1990. For other questions It was
June 30, 1990. The data were collected
by the Bureau of the Census for the
Bureau of Justice Statistics. Of the 3,118
agencies that received the LEMAS
questionnaire, 2,945 (94.5%) responded,
including 94.6% of those with 100 or more
officers. The 1990 survey was the second
in the triennial LEMAS series. This report
includes only data for agencies with 100
or more officers. For national summary
data on agencies of all sizes, the reader is
referred to the BJS reports State and
Local Police Departments, 1990
(NCJ-133284); Sheriffs'Departments,
1990 (NCJ-133283); and Drug
Enforcement by Police and Sheriffs'
Departments, 1990 (NCJ-134505).
Overview of this volume
Agencies included
This volume presents individual agency
data provided by State and local law
enforcemer,t agencies in response to the
1990 LEMAS survey. To be Included, an
agency had to meet the following criteria:
1. Employment of 100 or more full-tima
sworn officers as of March 1986 (reference
month for the 1986 Directory
Survey).
2. Employment of 100 or more full-time
sworn officers as of June 1990 (reference
month for the 1990 LEMASsurvey).
3. Employment of 50 or more full-time
sworn officers working In positions related
to field operations as of June 1990 (to
ensure agency has significant law
enforcement responsibilities).
Secondary State law enforcement
agencies such as those responsible for
the enforcement of alcohol or
conservation laws were not included,
even If they met the above criteria. As
a result, the 49 State agencies included
represent the primary State law enforcement
agency operating In each State
except Hawaii, which has no State law
enforcement agency. A total of 584 local
law enforcement agencies are included-
34 county police departments, 380
municipal police departments, 153
sheriffs' departments, and 17 special
police departments.
(The latter category Is comprised of
airport police, transit police, school police,
and other agencies with specially-defined
jurisdictions.)
Local law enforcement agencies are
included from all States except North
Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming. These
States had no local law enforcement
agencies that met the above criteria.
A summary of the number and type of
agencies from each State is presented
In Table A.
Organization of data tables
The State and local law enforcement
agencies with 1,000 or more full-time
sworn personnel working in field operations
are listed in Table B. These are the
agencies that have the largest number of
sworn personnel performing duties directly
related to law enforcement. Summary
data, by type of agency, for most of the
variables that are presented in the individual
agency data tables appear in table
C. The headings In table C correspond to
the eight section headings used for the
individual agency data tables: personnel,
expenditures and pay, operations,
vehicles, weapons and armor,
computerization, programs and policies,
and drug enforcement. The reader
should refer to the notes In the
appropriate individual data agency tables
when using data from table C.
Following the 3 summary data tables are
21 tables containing individual data for all
State and local law enforcement agencies
with 100 or more officers. Each 01' these
tables is divided into "A" and "B" sections.
In the "A" section, data are presented for
the 584 local-level agencies. The "B"
section contains data for the 49 Statelevel
agencies. The tables are in alphabetical
order by State and county within
each State. The order of agencies within
each county is not necessarily
alphabetical, because It was determined
by a numerical code on the data tape. At
the end of the "A" and "8" section in each
table are explanatory footnotes. This
information should be considered before
using data from each table.
For data items requiring a "yes" or "no"
response, an "X" is used in the tables to
represent a positive response, and a
single dash ("_"), a negative one. When
additional categories of responses are
possible (tables 8, 12, and 21), code
letters are used. Refer to the explanatory
notes at the end of these tables for
explanation of the codes. For data Items
that required a numerical response, a
single dash is used in Instances where an
item was not applicable to that agency,
and a response was not possible. A
single dash Is also used for special police
agencies on all population-related Items,
since the actual resident population
served by these agencies Is not readily
defined. In all tables, a double dash ("--")
Is used in instances where an agency
was unable to provide information.
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