Demographics and Analysis in Law Enforcement

Consider the roles demographics place in your analytical work. 

Populations can be defined as needed for analysis.

Have you left useful demographics out of your analyses in the past?

Law enforcement agencies track demographics in many ways. For an example, see the report Race And Ethnicity Of Violent Crime Offenders And Arrestees, 2018, at this link.

"Allen J. Beck, Ph.D., BJS Statistician

January 14, 2021    NCJ 255969

This report compares the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program data on incidents of nonfatal violent crime to data from BJS's National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) to determine if arrest differences by race and ethnicity can be attributed to differences in criminal involvement. It examines offenders' characteristics as reported by victims in the NCVS and provides information on racial and ethnic disparities beyond an arrestee and population-based comparison."

The Bureau of Justice Statistics offers a page called "All Data Analysis Tools" at this link.