Notice2024-00926
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection eComments Requested; Under Attack: Assaults on Our Nation's Law Enforcement
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Published
January 18, 2024
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Justice Department
Abstract
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice (DOJ), will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on November 27, 2023 allowing a 60- day comment period.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 12 (Thursday, January 18, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3428-3429]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00926]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[OMB Number 1110-0NEW]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection
eComments Requested; Under Attack: Assaults on Our Nation's Law
Enforcement
AGENCY: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.
ACTION: 30-Day notice.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice
(DOJ), will be submitting the following information collection request
to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The proposed
information collection was previously
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published in the Federal Register on November 27, 2023 allowing a 60-
day comment period.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for 30 days until
February 20, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have comments especially on the
estimated public burden or associated response time, suggestions, or
need a copy of the proposed information collection instrument with
instructions or additional information, please contact: Kevin Harris/
FBI CJIS, 1000 Custer Hollow Road, Clarksburg, WV 26306, (304) 625-
2000, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d29d81938692b4b0bbfcb5bda4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ce819d8f9a8ea8aca7e0a9a1b8">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Written comments and suggestions from the
public and affected agencies concerning the proposed collection of
information are encouraged. Your comments should address one or more of
the following four points:
--Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have practical utility;
--Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
--Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be
collected; and/or
--Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are
to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
Written comments and recommendations for this information
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of
this notice on the following website <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>.
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search
function and enter the title of the information collection.This
information collection request may be viewed at <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>. Follow
the instructions to view Department of Justice, information collections
currently under review by OMB.
DOJ seeks PRA authorization for this information collection for
three (3) years. OMB authorization for an ICR cannot be for more than
three (3) years without renewal. The DOJ notes that information
collection requirements submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs receive
a month-to-month extension while they undergo review.
Overview of This Information Collection
1. Type of Information Collection: New Collection.
2. Title of the Form/Collection: Under Attack: Assaults on Our
Nation's Law Enforcement.
3. Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the
Department of Justice sponsoring the collection: Officer Protocol
Questionnaire or Offender Protocol Questionnaire/FBI CJIS Division.
4. Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as
well as a brief abstract: Affected Public: State, Local and Tribal
governments, individual or households.
Abstract: Serious assaults on law enforcement in the United States
are a growing problem, with both assaults with injury and felonious
killings of law enforcement officers trending upward (FBI, 2022). While
the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) data
collection answers many questions related to these assaults and deaths,
such as the who, what, when, where, and how, the data does not answer
why these assaults are happening. Without knowing and understanding why
these assaults are happening, we cannot begin to prevent them. Outside
of the previous studies conducted by the FBI, there is a lack of
research into this question of why offenders assault police officers.
In particular, there is a lack of research that looks at both the
officer and the offender in such incidents, and how the relationship
between the two impacts the assault. The purposes of this qualitative
study are to examine the possibility of predicting assaults on officers
and to use this information to prevent future assaults. To date, very
few studies outside of the FBI's Officer Safety Awareness Training
(OSAT) research projects, have looked at these assaults from the
perspectives of both the officer and the offender. By interviewing
officers and offenders, this study seeks to gain a more thorough
understanding of why these incidents take place, and the context
surrounding them. Based on the recent trends and the modicum of
previous research, it is expected the current study would make a large
contribution to what is currently known about these attacks, and would
play a substantial role in the preparedness, prevention, and mitigation
of these incidents by informing those who develop training and
operational practices. This mixed method research effort will use the
Perpetrator-Motive Research Design (PMRD). PMRD is a 12-step
methodological design that focuses on gaining a thorough understanding
of the motivations of offenders. Interviewing incarcerated offenders
allows for increased accessibility, increased sample size, interviewer
security, and avoidance of ethical or potential legal entanglements
which interviewers might be exposed to while questioning offenders
still at large or whose cases have not yet exhausted the criminal legal
process. Because PMRD is suited to identify and understand offender
motives, the findings can be used in the development of training
interventions for law enforcement officials which could improve officer
safety. As part of the study, researchers will also seek to examine the
incident reports associated with the assaults and the FBI criminal
history record information of offenders. Researchers will also seek to
obtain, examine, and use any body-worn camera or dashboard camera
recordings associated with the assaults for research and training
purposes.
5. Obligation to Respond: Voluntary.
6. Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 120.
7. Estimated Time per Respondent: 2 hours.
8. Frequency: This is a one-time collection.
9. Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 240.
10. Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $0.
If additional information is required, contact: Darwin Arceo,
Department Clearance Officer, Policy and Planning Staff, Justice
Management Division, United States Department of Justice, Two
Constitution Square, 145 N Street NE, 4W-218 Washington, DC 20530.
Dated: January 12, 2024.
Darwin Arceo,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2024-00926 Filed 1-17-24; 8:45 am]
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