The number of law enforcement officers in the state and the number of law enforcement academy graduates here have fallen to their lowest points in at least a decade, according to data from the Wisconsin Department of Justice. Wisconsin has about 13,600 law enforcement officers at the moment. Thatâs down from a decade high of nearly 16,000 in 2012. And the state graduated only 766 people from law enforcement academies in fiscal year 2020, according to the most recent data from the stateâs DOJ. That number has been dropping gradually since a decade-high 954 people graduated from academies in fiscal year 2012. Although the decreases are small, they are occurring while the stateâs population is on the rise. Wisconsin grew from about 5.7 million to about 5.9 million in the last decade, according to the U.S. Census. Thatâs an increase of about 4%.