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Lemon Grove Police Department

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

ORI: CA037A100
Type: City
County: San Diego
State: California (CA)
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2021-01-01
Location: 32.7403, -117.0312

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2015, covering a population of 26,798.

1Sworn officers

0Civilian staff

0.04Employees per 1,000 people

26,798Population served

Year	Officers	Population served	Per 1,000
2015	1	26,798	0.04
2014	1	26,332	0.04
2011	1	25,618	0.04
1998	0	26,045	0.00

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 Lemon Grove 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	107	70	65.4%
2025	12	96	56	58.3%
2024	12	125	82	65.6%
2023	12	170	106	62.4%
2022	12	168	100	59.5%
2021	12	177	48	27.1%
2020	12	147	79	53.7%
2019	12	167	96	57.5%

Property crime
Year	Months filed	Offences	Cleared	Cleared as % of offences
2026	9 of 12	219	109	49.8%
2025	12	214	68	31.8%
2024	12	307	98	31.9%
2023	12	420	106	25.2%
2022	12	483	109	22.6%
2021	12	490	49	10.0%
2020	12	423	113	26.7%
2019	12	553	151	27.3%

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 CA037A100.

Arrests

Arrests made by Lemon Grove 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	609
2025	12	605
2024	12	776
2023	12	914
2022	12	768
2021	12	630
2020	12	1,101
2019	12	1,816

“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 CA037A100.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

1 incident appears in the FBI’s hate crime file for Lemon Grove Police Department for 2023, 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
2023	1
2022	1
2019	1
2017	1
2013	2
2012	2
2011	1
2009	4
2007	1
2006	1
2004	3
2002	3
2001	3
1999	2
1998	2
1997	3

Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 1997–2023
Bias motivation	Incidents
Anti-Black or African American	10
Anti-Gay (Male)	4
Anti-Hispanic or Latino	3
Anti-Multiple Races, Group	3
Anti-White	3
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)	2
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry	2
Anti-Arab	1
Anti-Asian	1
Anti-Catholic	1
Anti-Physical Disability	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 CA037A100.

Assaults on officers

Officers of Lemon Grove Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 2002 and 2025. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reported	Officers assaulted
Firearm	2
Knife or other cutting instrument	0
Hands, fists or feet	215
Other weapon	16

Year	Firearm	Hands, fists, feet	Other
2002	0	5	0
2003	0	5	2
2004	0	6	1
2005	0	3	1
2006	0	6	1
2007	0	6	1
2008	0	5	1
2009	0	6	0
2010	0	11	0
2011	0	16	1
2012	0	10	1
2013	0	14	1
2014	0	6	0
2015	0	9	1
2016	0	12	0
2017	0	8	0
2018	0	20	0
2019	1	15	1
2020	1	6	0
2022	0	1	0
2023	0	18	0
2024	0	16	4
2025	0	11	0

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.

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Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record CA037A100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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