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Phoenix Police Department

City agency in Maricopa, Arizona, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2025.

ORI: AZ0072300
Type: City
County: Maricopa
State: Arizona (AZ)
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2025-09-01
Location: 33.4483, -112.0817

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 1,688,662.

2,490Sworn officers

1,210Civilian staff

2.19Employees per 1,000 people

1,688,662Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	2,490	1,210	1,688,662	2.19
2024	2,519	1,180	1,662,809	2.22
2023	2,568	1,047	1,660,686	2.18
2022	2,599	1,015	1,637,902	2.21
2021	2,795	977	1,638,290	2.30
2020	2,939	964	1,708,960	2.28
2019	2,928	991	1,688,722	2.32
2018	2,919	983	1,653,080	2.36
2017	2,838	978	1,644,177	2.32
2016	2,762	944	1,586,611	2.34
2015	2,781	917	1,559,744	2.37
2014	2,805	908	1,529,852	2.43

Officer and civilian counts are full-time employees as filed by the agency in its annual return. A dash means the agency did not report that figure for that year — it does not mean zero.

Crime and clearances

Offences and clearances filed by Phoenix Police Department in its monthly returns to the FBI, added up by calendar year, 2019–2026. Violent crime and property crime are the FBI’s two categories. These are the counts as filed: Police Census does not turn them into a rate.

Violent crime
Year	Months filed	Offences	Cleared	Cleared as % of offences
2026	9 of 12	7,127	2,210	31.0%
2025	12	11,752	3,507	29.8%
2024	12	13,296	3,917	29.5%
2023	12	13,033	3,674	28.2%
2022	12	13,515	3,707	27.4%
2021	2 of 12	0	0	—
2020	12	13,646	3,818	28.0%
2019	12	11,803	3,749	31.8%

Property crime
Year	Months filed	Offences	Cleared	Cleared as % of offences
2026	9 of 12	19,293	2,118	11.0%
2025	12	34,550	3,705	10.7%
2024	12	38,892	5,332	13.7%
2023	12	41,432	4,337	10.5%
2022	12	47,787	4,962	10.4%
2021	2 of 12	0	0	—
2020	12	51,386	6,407	12.5%
2019	12	56,175	7,951	14.2%

Reading the table. “Not reported” means the agency filed nothing for that year; it does not mean zero. A 0 is a figure the agency filed. For 2026 the FBI is still collecting: that year is not complete in the file we read, so where this agency has no 2026 figures the table says “Not yet in the FBI’s file” rather than “Not reported”. We can see that the agency is absent from the file so far; we cannot tell whether it has not filed or has not yet been published, and we do not guess. A year marked “7 of 12” adds up only the months the agency filed, so it is not a full-year total. A dash in the last column means the percentage cannot be worked out: it needs both figures, and at least one offence.

“Cleared” is the FBI file’s clearance count for the year. Clearances in a year can relate to offences from earlier years, so the percentage is not the share of that year’s offences that were solved, and it can exceed 100%. Figures are not adjusted: a year far below the agency’s neighbouring years, or a 0 beside many offences, may reflect what was submitted rather than what happened. The file does not say which, and Police Census does not guess.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, summarized data for agency record AZ0072300.

Arrests

Arrests made by Phoenix Police Department, all offences combined, as filed with the FBI and added up by calendar year, 2019–2026.

Year	Months filed	Arrests
2026	9 of 12	17,618
2025	12	52,562
2024	12	64,630
2023	12	64,832
2022	12	61,055
2021	2 of 12	0
2020	12	63,775
2019	12	73,247

“Not reported” means the agency filed nothing for that year; it does not mean zero. A year marked “7 of 12” adds up only the months filed. For 2026 the FBI is still collecting, so an absent agency reads “Not yet in the FBI’s file”: absent from the file so far, which is not the same claim as having filed nothing. A 0 is the figure as filed: the file does not distinguish an agency that made no arrests from one that did not submit them, and Police Census cannot either. Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, arrest data for agency record AZ0072300.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

140 incidents appear in the FBI’s hate crime file for Phoenix Police Department for 2025, as at 14 August 2026. The table lists every year from 1991 to 2025 for which the file has at least one.

Incidents appearing in the FBI’s file, as at 14 August 2026
Year	Incidents appearing in the file
2025	140
2024	108
2023	109
2022	106
2021	140
2020	187
2019	151
2018	107
2017	219
2016	174
2015	231
2014	183
2013	123
2012	121
2011	123
2010	135
2009	115
2008	89
2007	80
2006	60
2005	32
2004	100
2003	100
2002	107
2001	154
2000	148
1999	139
1998	170
1997	217
1996	135
1995	125
1994	134
1993	125
1992	115
1991	48

Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 1991–2025
Bias motivation	Incidents
Anti-Black or African American	1,566
Anti-Gay (Male)	644
Anti-Hispanic or Latino	546
Anti-Jewish	382
Anti-White	348
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry	181
Anti-Multiple Races, Group	158
Anti-Asian	101
Anti-Lesbian (Female)	101
Anti-Islamic (Muslim)	84
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)	84
Anti-American Indian or Alaska Native	52
Anti-Other Religion	48
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group	30
Anti-Catholic	28
Anti-Transgender	23
Anti-Physical Disability	14
Anti-Arab	11
Anti-Mental Disability	10
Anti-Female	9
Anti-Protestant	9
Anti-Gender Non-Conforming	5
Anti-Bisexual	2
Anti-Jehovah's Witness	1
Anti-Other Christian	1
Anti-Sikh	1

111 of these incidents record more than one bias motivation. The FBI’s file stores those as a single list; each is shown here as its separate entries joined by “+”, and none is added to a line in the table above.

Anti-Black or African American + Anti-Female — 9
Anti-Black or African American + Anti-Hispanic or Latino — 9
Anti-Black or African American + Anti-Gay (Male) — 7
Anti-Black or African American + Anti-Jewish — 7
Anti-Jewish + Anti-Multiple Races, Group — 7
Anti-Black or African American + Anti-Transgender — 6
Anti-Female + Anti-Hispanic or Latino — 5
Anti-Black or African American + Anti-White — 4
Anti-Hispanic or Latino + Anti-White — 4
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group) + Anti-Transgender — 4
Anti-Black or African American + Anti-Jewish + Anti-Multiple Races, Group — 3
Anti-Black or African American + Anti-Jewish + Anti-Multiple Races, Group + Anti-Multiple Religions, Group — 3
Anti-Black or African American + Anti-Multiple Races, Group — 3
Anti-Jewish + Anti-Multiple Races, Group + Anti-Multiple Religions, Group — 3
Anti-American Indian or Alaska Native + Anti-Hispanic or Latino — 2
Anti-Black or African American + Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group) — 2
Anti-Female + Anti-Gay (Male) — 2
Anti-Gay (Male) + Anti-Transgender — 2
Anti-Transgender + Anti-White — 2
Anti-American Indian or Alaska Native + Anti-Black or African American — 1
Anti-American Indian or Alaska Native + Anti-Female — 1
Anti-Asian + Anti-Female — 1
Anti-Bisexual + Anti-Gay (Male) — 1
Anti-Black or African American + Anti-Hispanic or Latino + Anti-Jewish + Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group) + Anti-Multiple Races, Group — 1
Anti-Black or African American + Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry — 1
Anti-Female + Anti-Lesbian (Female) — 1
Anti-Female + Anti-Transgender — 1
Anti-Female + Anti-White — 1
Anti-Gay (Male) + Anti-Hispanic or Latino — 1
Anti-Gay (Male) + Anti-Lesbian (Female) — 1
Anti-Gay (Male) + Anti-Multiple Races, Group — 1
Anti-Gay (Male) + Anti-White — 1
Anti-Hispanic or Latino + Anti-Islamic (Muslim) — 1
Anti-Hispanic or Latino + Anti-Multiple Races, Group — 1
Anti-Hispanic or Latino + Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry — 1
Anti-Hispanic or Latino + Anti-Transgender — 1
Anti-Islamic (Muslim) + Anti-Jewish — 1
Anti-Jewish + Anti-Multiple Religions, Group — 1
Anti-Jewish + Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry — 1
Anti-Jewish + Anti-Physical Disability — 1
Anti-Jewish + Anti-Transgender — 1
Anti-Lesbian (Female) + Anti-White — 1
Anti-Male + Anti-White — 1
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group + Anti-Transgender — 1
Anti-Other Religion + Anti-White — 1
Anti-Physical Disability + Anti-White — 1

Absence from this file is not a zero. The file lists incidents that were reported to the FBI. An agency can be missing from it because it recorded none, because it did not report, or because it does not take part in the FBI’s hate crime program, and nothing Police Census holds can tell these apart. In any one year the file lists incidents for only a minority of the agencies the FBI counts as reporting.

The figures are counts of incidents as they appear in the file, as at 14 August 2026; Police Census does not turn them into a rate and does not compare them with other agencies. Offence and bias wording is the FBI’s own, unaltered. Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, additional datasets, hate crime bulk file, agency record AZ0072300.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

311 people have died during an encounter with Phoenix Police Department between 2000 and 2026, according to the two datasets named below.

311Deaths recorded

18.42Per 100,000 people policed

2000–2026Period covered

Recorded cause	Deaths
Gunshot	275
Vehicle	10
Tasered	7
Taser	5
Physical Restraint	4
Gunshot, Taser	4
Undetermined	2
Medical emergency	2

What this figure is and is not. It counts deaths recorded as occurring during an encounter with this agency. It is not a finding of wrongdoing, and a death being recorded here says nothing about whether it was lawful. Many involve armed confrontations; some involve none. Police Census publishes counts only and does not name the people who died.

Source: these records come from Mapping Police Violence (185) and Fatal Encounters (126). Where both recorded the same death it is counted once. They are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. See Deaths for how the two are combined. Mapping Police Violence data is displayed with attribution to its compiler; the written scope of this site’s right to display it is being confirmed (note dated 11 October 2026).

Assaults on officers

Officers of Phoenix Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1995 and 2025. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reported	Officers assaulted
Firearm	840
Knife or other cutting instrument	422
Hands, fists or feet	5,225
Other weapon	1,541

Year	Firearm	Knife	Hands, fists, feet	Other
1995	27	8	78	32
1996	17	14	74	32
1997	33	15	75	37
1998	30	15	73	37
1999	25	12	74	41
2000	32	14	78	42
2001	30	13	76	46
2002	22	11	82	44
2003	21	11	78	39
2004	22	15	77	36
2005	22	15	70	45
2006	26	14	82	48
2007	32	15	74	46
2008	25	13	81	50
2009	14	6	77	46
2010	26	4	81	50
2011	31	9	82	40
2012	28	12	89	43
2013	30	11	80	43
2014	29	20	76	35
2015	20	7	69	33
2016	13	5	70	39
2017	17	22	85	48
2018	30	14	81	37
2019	22	12	62	33
2020	20	10	70	37
2022	20	14	76	34
2023	21	11	84	47
2024	31	19	90	42
2025	124	61	2,981	359

Why there is no single total here. The FBI publishes two breakdowns of the same assaults — by weapon, and by how the officer was deployed — and nationally they do not agree: the assignment columns sum to 1,869,337 and the weapon columns to 1,744,852, and the two match on only 84% of rows. Police Census publishes the weapon breakdown as the FBI states it rather than picking one basis and calling it ‘the total’. The file’s ‘cleared’ column is not shown either: it sums higher than the assaults themselves, so it is not a subset of what is above and we have not established what it counts.

This comes from the FBI’s Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted programme. Despite the name, the file carries no officers-killed data at all — those columns are empty for every agency and every year, so this page reports assaults only and says nothing about officers killed.

LEOKA identifies agencies by name, not by the ORI used elsewhere on this site. A row was attached only where exactly one agency in that state reduces to the same base name; 78.7% of rows matched nationwide. An agency with nothing here may have reported no assaults, or may be one of the names that did not match — Police Census does not guess which.

Also policing Maricopa

Jurisdictions overlap. These agencies are also recorded against the same county, so a single address may be covered by more than one of them.

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record AZ0072300. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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