Since September 1, 1930, the FBI has collected and published crime and employee data for law enforcement agencies across the United States. Over the years, the FBI has adapted and adjusted what data are collected to meet the needs of a changing world. While the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) has been counted on to gather crime and law enforcement data for more than nine decades, a new collection has been added to the program that will collect crucial data not only about traditional law enforcement professions but also for employees in corrections and telecommunications, as well as prosecutors and adjudicators.

This new collection—called the Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection (LESDC)—was established following former President Donald Trump’s signing of the Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act (LESDCA) on June 16, 2020. The goal of this new data collection is to help agencies better understand and prevent suicides among current and former law enforcement officers at the federal, state, tribal, and local levels. On January 1, 2022, the UCR Program began accepting information on suicides and suicide attempts in the law enforcement and criminal justice communities via the LESDC.