FY 2022 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) | O BJS 2022 171369

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The FY 2022 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) grant opportunity is a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) award under the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs (OJP), focused on producing high-quality national statistics about policing in the United States. The overarching purpose aligns with OJP priorities such as advancing civil rights and racial equity, increasing access to justice, supporting victims and people affected by the justice system, strengthening community safety, and building trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve. Rather than funding direct service or enforcement activities, this opportunity supports national data collection and analysis that can inform policy, oversight, training, and resource decisions across the criminal justice system.

This specific award is a continuation, noncompetitive cooperative agreement (Funding Opportunity Number: O-BJS-2022-171369; CFDA 16.734) with an expected single award and a maximum funding level of $700,000. The performance period runs from October 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. As a cooperative agreement, it implies substantial involvement by BJS in guiding or collaborating on the work, which is common for large federal statistical collections where methodological consistency, data quality, and confidentiality requirements are central.

The LEMAS program itself is one of the key national data sources on law enforcement management and agency operations. Conducted every three to four years since 1987, the core LEMAS survey is built on a nationally representative sample of roughly 3,500 state and local law enforcement agencies. It produces national estimates on a wide range of administrative and operational topics, including salaries and compensation, agency expenditures and budgeting, staffing and operational practices, equipment and technology, information systems, and formal policies and procedures. Because the survey is repeated over time with consistent methods, it allows researchers and policymakers to track trends and compare practices across jurisdictions.

In addition to the recurring core survey, BJS uses LEMAS supplemental surveys to gather more detailed information on emerging or high-priority issues that are not covered in depth in the standard instrument. The opportunity described here funds the development and administration of a two-topic LEMAS supplemental survey planned for FY 2023. The two focal topics are (1) post-academy law enforcement training, and (2) organizational responses related to police suicide. In practical terms, this means the funded project supports designing survey questions, testing and refining the instrument, fielding the survey to the appropriate sample of agencies, and producing statistically reliable results that can help the field understand how agencies train officers after academy graduation and what policies, programs, or supports agencies have in place to address suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention within law enforcement organizations.

The legal authority for BJS to make this award comes from section 302 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, codified at 34 U.S.C. 10132(c)(1). This authority permits BJS to make grants or enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with a range of entities (including public agencies, higher education institutions, and private organizations or individuals) for the purpose of collecting and analyzing criminal justice data and producing reliable statistics. In short, the grant is structured to strengthen the national evidence base on policing by funding a targeted supplemental LEMAS data collection that can be used to inform training standards, officer wellness strategies, agency management practices, and broader public understanding of law enforcement operations.

• The Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics in the information and statistics sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2022 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.734.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jun 16, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 23, 2022. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $700,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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