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Newport Beach Police Department

City agency in Orange, California, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2022.

ORI
CA0301400
Type
City
County
Orange
State
California (CA)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2022-11-01
Location
33.6757, -117.7772

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 82,431.

145Sworn officers
83Civilian staff
2.77Employees per 1,000 people
82,431Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
20251458382,4312.77
20241349281,8112.76
20231368283,3922.61
20221358584,2542.61
20211448386,9932.61
20201378084,4482.57
20191428385,3252.64
20181377686,2762.47
20171358286,9102.50
20161408887,4822.61
20151397887,7492.47
20141397887,7592.47

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 Newport Beach 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 12806277.5%
20251220713967.1%
20241220814871.2%
20231217110863.2%
20221215911471.7%
2021Not reported
20201214112991.5%
2019121359973.3%
Property crime
YearMonths filedOffencesClearedCleared as % of offences
20268 of 1272011516.0%
2025121,28522017.1%
2024121,54224616.0%
2023121,70123613.9%
2022121,75634519.6%
2021Not reported
2020121,78840122.4%
2019121,77130317.1%

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 CA0301400.

Arrests

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

YearMonths filedArrests
20268 of 122,028
2025122,915
2024122,872
2023122,312
2022123,620
2021Not reported
2020123,827
2019124,817

“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 CA0301400.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

2 incidents appear in the FBI’s hate crime file for Newport Beach 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
20252
20234
20222
20184
20171
20152
20142
20133
20127
20115
20101
20095
20087
20077
20062
20055
20044
20037
20024
20016
20001
19991
19971
19952
Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 1995–2025
Bias motivationIncidents
Anti-Jewish21
Anti-Black or African American15
Anti-Gay (Male)11
Anti-Hispanic or Latino11
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry11
Anti-Multiple Races, Group4
Anti-White3
Anti-Asian2
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)2
Anti-Arab1
Anti-Gender Non-Conforming1
Anti-Lesbian (Female)1
Anti-Other Religion1
Anti-Transgender1

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 CA0301400.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

7 people have died during an encounter with Newport Beach Police Department between 2004 and 2025, according to the two datasets named below.

7Deaths recorded
8.49Per 100,000 people policed
2004–2025Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot5
Vehicle2

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 (4) and Mapping Police Violence (3). 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 Newport Beach 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
Firearm5
Knife or other cutting instrument12
Hands, fists or feet644
Other weapon74
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19951003
19980084
19990072
200001122
200110156
20020081
200300123
200410152
200500271
200600194
200700333
200800262
200910314
201000351
201100352
201201342
201300371
201401281
201502210
201600250
201701180
201800241
20190091
202000212
202200110
202302343
2024045011
2025104912

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 Orange

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 CA0301400. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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