HR2240-119

What This Bill Does

The Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act requires three Department of Justice reports within 270 days. Section 3 requires the Attorney General, consulting the FBI Director, National Institute of Justice Director, and FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division Director, to report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees on attacks targeting law-enforcement officers. The report must count offenders who target officers because of their status, coordinated incidents in the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted Data Collection, federal responses to ambushes and violent attacks on federal officers, state and local responses, training programs, effectiveness of ambush training, Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership distribution and limitations, whether DOJ can combine LEOKA and justifiable-homicide reports for officer-involved shootings, whether CJIS should expand data collection to include intentional targeting, and recommendations for training and response improvements. Section 4 requires a report on whether UCR and NIBRS can add a category for aggressive actions or trauma-inducing incidents against officers that do not rise to reportable crimes, including evidence standards, state and local engagement, potential DOJ uses, data disparities, and needed authorities. Section 5 requires a report on officer mental-health and stress responses, available peer-to-peer and other resources, resource use, screening availability or need, and legislative tools to improve officer wellness.

Who Benefits and How

Law-enforcement officers, federal law-enforcement agencies, state police departments, local police departments, tribal law-enforcement agencies, police training academies, police mental-health programs, peer-support programs, police unions, Bulletproof Vest Partnership applicants, congressional judiciary committees, and public-safety researchers benefit from clearer data on ambushes, officer targeting, protective-equipment gaps, underreported aggression, and mental-health needs.

Who Bears the Burden and How

The Department of Justice, Attorney General staff, FBI headquarters, FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division, National Institute of Justice analysts, Uniform Crime Reporting System administrators, National Incident-Based Reporting System administrators, state law-enforcement data offices, local police departments, tribal law-enforcement agencies, stakeholder organizations, and congressional report reviewers must compile three reports, survey training and response programs, analyze data-system changes, consult stakeholders, and develop legislative recommendations within 270 days.

Key Provisions

• Requires a DOJ report on targeted attacks, ambushes, coordinated incidents, training, officer-involved shooting data, and the Bulletproof Vest Partnership.
• Requires recommendations to improve federal, state, and local responses and training for violent attacks against officers.
• Requires a feasibility report on adding below-crime-threshold aggression or trauma-inducing incidents to UCR and NIBRS.
• Requires analysis of evidence standards, data disparities, state and local reporting engagement, and potential DOJ uses of new data.
• Requires a mental-health and wellness report covering stress responses, peer-to-peer resources, screening, program use, and additional authorities.