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NCJ Number: 235385 Find in a Library
Title: Arrest-Related Deaths, 2003-2009-Statistical Tables
Document: Agency Summary|PDF|Text
Author(s): Andrea M Burch
Date Published: November 2011
Annotation: This report provides statistics on persons who die in the custody or under the restraint of State or local law enforcement personnel.
Abstract: Results indicate that from 2003 through 2009, a total of 4,813 deaths were reported to the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD) program. Of these, about 6 in 10 deaths (2,931) were classified as homicide by law enforcement personnel, and 4 in 10 (1,882) were attributed to other manners of death. Suicide and death by intoxication each accounted for 11 percent of reported arrest-related deaths, accidental injury for 6 percent, and natural causes for 5 percent. Deaths with manners classified as undetermined or those in which manners were unknown represented about 6 percent of reported arrest-related deaths. During the same period, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) estimated nearly 98 million arrests in the United States. While men comprised about 76 percent of reported arrests, they represented 95 percent of persons who died during the process of arrest. As a group, arrest related decedents tended to be older than the arrest population. Those under the age of 25 accounted for 45 percent of reported arrests but less than a quarter (22 percent) of arrest-related deaths. Data were collected from January 2003through December 2009 and detail the percent and type of arrest-related deaths, as well as the demographic characteristics of decedents and the law enforcement agencies involved in the death. Tables and figures
Main Term(s): Custody deaths
Index Term(s): Arrest and apprehension; Homicide investigations; Law enforcement; Police Brutality; Police statistics
Sponsoring Agency: Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
Washington, DC 20531
Justice Statistics Clearinghouse/NCJRS
Rockville, MD 20849
NCJRS Photocopy Services
Rockville, MD 20849-6000
Corporate Author: Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
US Dept of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
United States of America
Sale Source: NCJRS Photocopy Services
Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849-6000
United States of America

Justice Statistics Clearinghouse/NCJRS
P.O. Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849
United States of America
Page Count: 16
Series: BJS Special Reports
Format: Document
Type: Statistics
Language: English
Country: United States of America
Agency Summary: https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=2228 
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