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Alameda Police Department

City agency in Alameda, California, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2021.

ORI
CA0010100
Type
City
County
Alameda
State
California (CA)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2021-11-01
Location
37.7669, -122.2427

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 78,978.

67Sworn officers
34Civilian staff
1.28Employees per 1,000 people
78,978Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025673478,9781.28
2024703374,4581.38
2023693475,0611.37
2022713474,4411.41
2021673079,3561.22
2020723378,0471.35
2019743478,9071.37
2018803379,9511.41
2017793279,7611.39
2016812979,5971.38
2015832978,6131.42
2014843177,0481.49

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 Alameda 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
YearMonths filedOffencesClearedCleared as % of offences
20268 of 121588755.1%
20251227516459.6%
2024122399539.7%
2023122629134.7%
2022122368937.7%
20212 of 12491428.6%
2020121936131.6%
2019121626640.7%
Property crime
YearMonths filedOffencesClearedCleared as % of offences
20268 of 121,75032518.6%
2025122,80846116.4%
2024123,7152376.4%
2023124,2861683.9%
2022123,2341635.0%
20212 of 12526163.0%
2020122,5141506.0%
2019122,6081455.6%

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 CA0010100.

Arrests

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

YearMonths filedArrests
20268 of 121,174
2025121,390
202412956
202312784
202212947
20212 of 12140
2020121,131
2019121,895

“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. Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, arrest data for agency record CA0010100.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

3 incidents appear in the FBI’s hate crime file for Alameda 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
YearIncidents appearing in the file
20253
20242
20236
20226
20212
20205
20192
20187
201710
20163
20152
20144
20131
20102
20081
20071
20061
20053
20045
20032
200210
20019
200013
199916
19985
199712
19962
19956
Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 1995–2025
Bias motivationIncidents
Anti-Black or African American48
Anti-Asian20
Anti-Gay (Male)18
Anti-Jewish11
Anti-Lesbian (Female)9
Anti-Multiple Races, Group7
Anti-White7
Anti-Islamic (Muslim)5
Anti-Catholic4
Anti-Hispanic or Latino4
Anti-Heterosexual2
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)2
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry2
Anti-Arab1
Anti-Physical Disability1

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 CA0010100.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

5 people have died during an encounter with Alameda Police Department between 2000 and 2021, according to the two datasets named below.

5Deaths recorded
6.33Per 100,000 people policed
2000–2021Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot2
Drowned1
Physical Restraint1
Tasered1

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 Fatal Encounters (3) and Mapping Police Violence (2). 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 Alameda 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 reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm8
Knife or other cutting instrument6
Hands, fists or feet596
Other weapon161
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
199521196
199600103
19970184
19980091
19991184
200000329
200101205
200200243
200300267
200400314
200500307
200610248
200700206
200801151
200900103
201000124
20110093
201200146
201301134
201410163
201500177
201600163
20170082
201810216
201910243
202000112
202200152
202310387
2024002614
2025007024

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 Alameda

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 CA0010100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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