“A bill to require the Attorney General to develop reports relating to violent attacks against law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.”
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This section states congressional findings on the rise in violence against law enforcement officers—including 60 feloniously killed in 2022, nearly 30% from unprovoked attacks or ambushes—the need for expanded data collection on such incidents beyond existing systems like the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted program and National Incident-Based Reporting System, officers' mental health challenges, and Congress's commitment to supporting law enforcement, as demonstrated by laws such as the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program Reauthorization Act of 2015.
This section directs the Attorney General, in consultation with the Directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Institute of Justice, and FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division, to submit to the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, not later than 270 days after enactment, a report on attacks against law enforcement officers. The report must include (1) statistics on offenders targeting officers due to their status and coordinated incidents (two or more parties) reported to the FBI's Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) data collection; (2) federal responses to ambushes on federal officers and state/local responses to ambushes on their officers, plus recommendations to improve all responses; (3) a survey of federal and state training programs for violent and ambush attacks, an analysis of their effectiveness, and recommendations to improve them; (4) an analysis of the Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership (i.e., a grant program to help state, local, and tribal law enforcement purchase protective body armor), including its efficacy, general limitations, and location-specific limitations amid rising ambushes; (5) feasibility of combining LEOKA with FBI 09C Justifiable Homicide reports for officer-involved shootings and expanding CJIS data collection to include suspect injury levels in LEOKA incidents; (6) disparities in availability and reporting of ambush data versus other violent crime data; and (7) additional legislative tools to deter ambushes. In developing the report, these officials must consult federal, state, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies and relevant nongovernmental entities.
This section directs the Attorney General, in consultation with the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Director of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), to submit to the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, not later than 270 days after enactment, a report analyzing implementation of a new category in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) System and National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)—FBI programs that collect crime data from state and local law enforcement agencies—for aggressive actions, conduct, or other trauma-inducing incidents against law enforcement officers not currently reported. The report must cover (1) feasibility of the new category, (2) its level of detail and standard of evidence, (3) methods to engage state and local agencies in reporting beyond standard crime data, (4) potential uses by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and its components, (5) disparities in availability and reporting of non-criminal vs. other violent crime data against officers and reasons therefor, and (6) additional legislative tools to deter such incidents. In developing the report, these officials must consult federal, state, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies and relevant nongovernmental organizations, academies, or other entities.
This section directs the Attorney General, in consultation with the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Director of the National Institute of Justice, to submit to the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, not later than 270 days after enactment, a report on mental health and stress-related issues affecting law enforcement officers. The report addresses (1) types, frequency, and severity of officers' responses to aggressive actions or other trauma-inducing incidents; (2) available mental health and stress-related resources or programs at Federal, State, and local levels, especially peer-to-peer programs; (3) the extent of officers' use of those resources; (4) availability of, or need for, mental health screening within agencies; and (5) additional legislative tools or authorities to assess, monitor, and improve officers' mental health and wellness. In developing the report, specified officials must consult stakeholders including Federal, State, Tribal, and local law enforcement agencies and nongovernmental organizations, international organizations, academies, or other entities.