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How do the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) counts of law enforcement officers differ from the annual counts of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)? BJS counts generated by the Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA) are more inclusive than those from the UCR because they include all agencies and all officers employed with these agencies who have general arrest powers. The counts from the UCR are limited to participating agencies and to officers paid out of police funds (as opposed to jail or count funds). In 2004, CSLLEA officer totals were about 56,000 higher than the UCR totals. |