How many police officers are in the US?

This statistic displays the number of law enforcement officers in the United States from 2004 to 2016. In 201, the government employed 421459 law enforcement officers. read more

BJS: The Bureau of Justice Statistics has the only accurate figures for the number of police officers in the United States. Every four years, from 1992 to 2008, BJS conducted a complete Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, recording the total number of sworn police officers. read more

Each of the United States' 50 federated states (referred to simply as 'states' in the United States despite their lack of full sovereignty [citation needed]) retain their own police, military and domestic law-making powers. read more

The next problem is that their law enforcement category definition changed in 2003, from “police and detectives, including supervisors” (whatever exactly that may mean), with an estimated 1.1 million workers, to “police and sheriff’s patrol officers” with estimates in the 600,000 range. read more