During the 2004-05 school year, 74% of the 750 law enforcement agencies serving 4-year universities and colleges with 2,500 or more students employed sworn law enforcement officers. These officers had full arrest powers granted by a state or local government. The remainder employed nonsworn security officers only. Nearly all public campuses(93%) used sworn officers compared to less than half of private campuses (42%).
Two-thirds (67%) of campus law enforcement agencies surveyed used armed patrol officers during the 2004-05 school year. Armed patrol officers were used at nearly 9 in 10 agencies that employed sworn officers and at nearly 1 in 10 agencies that relied on nonsworn officers only.
These findings come from the first survey of campus law enforcement agencies conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics since the 1994-95 school year. Among agencies included in both the 1994-95 and 2004-05 surveys, the percentage using sworn officers increased from 78% to 79% and the percentage using armed patrol officers increased from 66% to 72%.
On campuses with 5,000 or more students, private campuses had a higher ratio of law enforcement employees to students than public campuses. Between the 1994-95 and 2004-05 surveys, comparable agencies increased their collective staffing levels from 2.8 full-time employees per 1,000 students to 3 per 1,000.
READ ON
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/cle0405.txt
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment