TRAC's Web Site about the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) examines the agency's enforcement activities and staffing patterns from many different perspectives. Approximately 23,000 pages -- tables, maps, graphs and text -- are available!

To help you find your way around this site, TRAC provides a variety of navigational aids. Take the brief Navigation Tour to see how these work.

The main menu on the home page offers the following choices:

• To begin with ...
  Where to start your tour.
  • Roadmap to this FBI Web Site
    Where you are now. Provides information on each main menu choice. Take the "Navigation Tour" to see the variety of navigation aids available to find your way around the site.

  • Info from TRAC
    What information is available from TRAC free on the Web versus available for a small fee to help cover our expenses. New Federal Enforcement Information Center being developed for the media -- partners sought.

  • Registration
    Where you register and obtain personal userid and password required to access findings and data graphics on this site. Registration and access are free.

• Findings and Data Graphics on the FBI
  Where to find detailed info about FBI enforcement and staffing --
  • Key Findings:
    Overview of key findings. Graphical highlights.

  • FBI National Profile and Enforcement Trends Over Time:
    Graphs (with links to supporting data) profiling FBI enforcement and staffing patterns. Important long term trends.

  • White Collar Counts:
    Detailed US, state, and county information about a variety of economic indicators from the number of executives employed in each county to the number of bank offices and volume of deposits. Detailed county-level employment by occupation and industry. Addition detail on medical services (physicians) and the banking and savings and loan sector. How your county ranks on these indicators with other areas is included. Top 50 counties and bottom 50 counties by occupation, industry, and income levels. Discussion of the relevance of these various "white collar counts" to distribution of white collar crimes. Note: this is a large area with thousands of pages of information.

  • FBI at Work:
    Text with accompanying tables, charts, and maps describing key findings as well as providing background information about the FBI.

  • District Enforcement (for individual years):
    Where you find detailed maps, ranking tables, and individual detail tables on a variety of enforcement indicators about the United States as a whole and each of the 90 federal judicial districts, along with staffing patterns for each of the 55 FBI districts. Topics covered include: criminal referrals, prosecutions and declinations, convictions and sentences, length of time on prosecutions and prison time. What laws FBI enforces frequently and seldom. How often federal prosecutors decline to prosecute and reasons they give. Where are staff assigned? How do districts rank on more than twenty-one separate indicators of FBI activity. All of these facts and figures separately available for each of the last five years. Note: this is a large area with thousands of pages of information.

• About the ...
  Where you find supplementary information ABOUT various topics.
  • About the Law:
    Where the text of criminal statutes enforced by the FBI can be found.

  • About the Data:
    Where the sources for the Web Site's data are given, plus information on their scope and coverage. Strengths and weaknesses of the data are described.

    A separate "help" section describes the different geographic areas -- counties, states, FBI districts, federal judicial districts, and U.S. -- covered by the site, along with the types of information available on each.

  • About TRAC:
    Describes Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse and how it operates.