Table 1.
Demographic and job characteristics of LEOs. Weighted proportions are provided in parentheses. Variables for which values are only given for the 2020 wave are constant across both waves.
| 2020 |
2021 |
|
|---|---|---|
| Gender identity | ||
| Female | 251 (0.21) | |
| Male | 689 (0.79) | |
| Ethnoracial identity | ||
| White | 708 (0.82) | |
| Black | 79 (0.05) | |
| Latino/a | 93 (0.08) | |
| Multiracial or other | 59 (0.05) | |
| Rank | ||
| Line officer | 568 (0.58) | 532 (0.53) |
| Supervisor | 199 (0.2) | 196 (0.19) |
| Commander | 173 (0.22) | 184 (0.24) |
| Other | 0 (0) | 27 (0.04) |
| Years as a sworn LEO | ||
| 0-5 | 80 (0.09) | 76 (0.08) |
| 6-10 | 123 (0.14) | 120 (0.13) |
| 11-15 | 160 (0.17) | 132 (0.13) |
| 16-20 | 199 (0.19) | 179 (0.18) |
| 21+ | 377 (0.41) | 428 (0.47) |
| Department size | ||
| Small | 179 (0.36) | |
| Medium | 46 (0.1) | |
| Large | 715 (0.54) | |
| Total | ||
| 940 | 940 | |