February 12, 2025

For the 12-month reporting period of July 2023 to June 2024, 11,445 out of 19,227 federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies throughout the nation participated in the National Use-of-Force Data Collection. The officers employed by these agencies represent 72 percent of the federal, state, local, and tribal sworn officers in the nation.

Participating agencies are agencies that submitted one or more incident reports or a Zero Report within the specified 12 months. A Zero Report indicates no use-of-force incidents occurred within the designated time. Statistics are preliminary and can change as agencies submit updates.

Numbers of agencies reporting at least one incident during these months

Numbers of agencies responding with a Zero Report during these months

Numbers of agencies not reporting during these months

About the Use-of-Force Data Collection

Law enforcement officers across the country often face complex and dangerous policing environments that may result in a use-of-force incident. Such incidents have long been a topic of national discussion, but high-profile cases involving law enforcement use of force have heightened awareness of these incidents. To promote more informed conversations regarding law enforcement use of force in the United States, representatives from major law enforcement organizations worked in collaboration with the FBI to develop the National Use-of-Force Data Collection. The FBI officially began accepting data on January 1, 2019.

The data collection provides a mechanism for law enforcement agencies to report their officers’ use-of-force incidents for the purpose of compiling national statistics. The FBI uses an estimated law enforcement employee count of 937,000 as the standard to determine the percentage of law enforcement participation in the National Use-of-Force Data Collection. This law enforcement employee count includes all known and reasonably presumed federal, state, local, tribal, territory, and college and university law enforcement eligible to participate in this national collection. The goal of the resulting statistics is to provide an aggregate view of the incidents reported and the circumstances, subjects, and officers involved. The data collected focuses on readily known information that can be reported within the first few days after a use-of-force occurrence. Reports emphasize the collective nature of the data, and as a federal program, the National Use-of-Force Data Collection does not assess whether the officers involved in use-of-force incidents acted within the bounds of their respective departmental policies.