After we advised them of the survey and explained our goals, we gave interested attendees survey forms to complete. The National Public Safety Information Bureau annually publishes the “National Directory of Law Enforcement Administrators,” which provides a complete listing of local, county, state and federal agencies from around the United States.Īgencies outside our initial contact schedule were made aware of the survey process through presentations by ASA personnel at tactical conferences, sniper schools, seminars and competitions nationwide. To call and/or write to each SWAT team, we also needed some general information about each agency. The Justice Department’s annual report “Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics, Data of Individual State and Local Agencies” provided an alphabetized listing of 897 agencies to contact. The first thing we needed was a current listing of agencies around the country that maintained SWAT teams.
Then, using the labor of a group of dedicated volunteers, we went to work. We established the parameters of our survey field around the agencies involved, time span to be covered and the types of engagements that would qualify as sniper shootings. We developed a survey that asked the questions we felt were of most interest and importance to sniper teams and administrators.
We initiated a project to gather statistical data about police snipers’ use-of-force engagements. Realizing this information had never been collected, ASA seized upon this as an opportunity to impact the sniper community in a positive way.
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