Latest United States Department of Justice Stories
BJA's Officer Safety Program Saves Lives WASHINGTON, Dec. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the wake of recent violent attacks against law enforcement professionals, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that since January 1, 2011 nearly 30 law enforcement and corrections officers were saved by protective vests. Of these saves, 16 officers were wearing life-saving vests purchased, in part, with funds awarded through the DOJ's Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) Program....
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the wake of recent violent attacks against law enforcement professionals, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that since January 1, 2011 nearly 30 law enforcement and corrections officers have been saved by protective vests. Of these saves, 16 officers were wearing life-saving vests purchased, in part, with funds awarded through the DOJ's Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) Program. Administered by DOJ's Bureau of Justice...
Justice Department bulletin examines the latest juvenile arrest data WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs released Juvenile Arrests 2009, a bulletin analyzing data from the FBI's annual Crime in the United States report to characterize the extent and nature of juvenile crime. According to the 2009 data, U.S. law enforcement agencies made an estimated 1.9 million arrests of persons younger than 18 years old,...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released Justice Expenditures and Employment, 1982-2007 - Statistical Tables (NCJ 236218). These tables present data on justice expenditures and employment in 5-year increments from 1982 to 2007. Data tables show federal, state, and local government expenditures and employment for three major criminal justice functions: corrections, police protection, and judicial and...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the Department of Justice: OJP Leadership Addresses Violence Against Native Americans - In remarks at the Task Force on Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women, held in conjunction with the fourteenth Interdepartmental Tribal Justice, Safety, & Wellness Session, December 14, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Principal Deputy AAG Mary Lou Leary said, "We are working hard to forge...
******PUBLICATION ADVISORY****** WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today announced the availability of the NIJ Journal #268. The cover story discusses the important role of research in the United States' response to the challenges of transnational organized crime. The Journal also includes: an overview of NIJ's new peer review process, the final results from an expert panel on the safety of conducted...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following weekly news brief is being released by the <font size="2" face="Arial">Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs:</font> Attorney General Holds Public Hearing on Children Exposed to Violence - In remarks at the National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence on Tuesday, November 29, in Baltimore, Md., Attorney General Eric Holder, said, "As a former judge and U.S. attorney, and now as...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Officials of major federal law enforcement agencies thanked Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), the top Democratic appropriator for the Justice Department, for leading the successful effort to fund federal enforcement agencies for the coming year. Director Robert S. Mueller III of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Marshals Service Director Stacia A. Hylton, on behalf of 17,842 FBI agents and marshals, thanked the...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Conference of Mayors today denounced tomorrow's expected release of city-by-city crime rankings by CQ Press as an annual misuse of FBI crime data at the expense of the reputations and economies of this nation's cities. A book containing the rankings is scheduled for publication November 22. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110125/MM36443LOGO) "Again CQ Press has defied the FBI's own warnings against using its data to...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following release is being issued by the Office of Justice Programs: AAG Robinson Speaks at Criminology Conference - In remarks Thursday, November 17 at the American Society of Criminology Conference: Breaking the Mold: Innovations and Bold Ventures in Criminology, in Washington, D.C., Assistant Attorney General Laurie O. Robinson, Office of Justice Programs, said, "My goal is to try to institutionalize a scientific mindset...
