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Sacramento County Sheriff's Office

County agency in Sacramento, California, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2023.

ORI
CA0340000
Type
County
County
Sacramento
State
California (CA)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2023-03-01
Location
38.45, -121.3404

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 602,628.

1,319Sworn officers
812Civilian staff
3.54Employees per 1,000 people
602,628Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
20251,319812602,6283.54
20241,287764621,6753.30
20231,330683604,7383.33
20221,333682609,1363.31
20211,271666585,2863.31
20201,333635580,4623.39
20191,348644582,1203.42
20181,302596583,4383.25
20171,279676589,4143.32
20161,247676578,3813.32
20151,249657580,3133.28
20141,213687581,6163.27

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 Sacramento County Sheriff's Office 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
20269 of 121,89070237.1%
2025122,8511,05437.0%
2024122,8701,01935.5%
2023122,80889331.8%
2022122,72149918.3%
2021Not reported
2020122,57982031.8%
2019122,40891538.0%
Property crime
YearMonths filedOffencesClearedCleared as % of offences
20269 of 124,77162513.1%
2025128,17992711.3%
2024128,81591010.3%
2023127,8806518.3%
2022129,1122032.2%
2021Not reported
2020127,8434045.2%
2019128,1344675.7%

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 CA0340000.

Arrests

Arrests made by Sacramento County Sheriff's Office, all offences combined, as filed with the FBI and added up by calendar year, 2019–2026.

YearMonths filedArrests
20269 of 126,384
2025129,933
2024128,950
2023128,617
2022125,720
2021Not reported
2020128,675
20191214,156

“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 CA0340000.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

10 incidents appear in the FBI’s hate crime file for Sacramento County Sheriff's Office 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
202510
202410
202316
20229
202110
20202
20194
20184
201711
201610
20158
20146
201313
201220
201110
201013
200910
200817
200718
200616
20055
200426
200327
200228
200137
200034
199923
199819
199729
199668
199551
Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 1995–2025
Bias motivationIncidents
Anti-Black or African American206
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry61
Anti-Jewish51
Anti-White39
Anti-Hispanic or Latino37
Anti-Gay (Male)36
Anti-Multiple Races, Group26
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)22
Anti-Asian20
Anti-Lesbian (Female)18
Anti-Other Religion14
Anti-Protestant11
Anti-Islamic (Muslim)6
Anti-Transgender6
Anti-Arab3
Anti-Catholic3
Anti-Gender Non-Conforming2
Anti-Bisexual1
Anti-Female1
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group1

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 CA0340000.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

77 people have died during an encounter with Sacramento County Sheriff's Office between 2000 and 2026, according to the two datasets named below.

77Deaths recorded
12.78Per 100,000 people policed
2000–2026Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot62
Vehicle7
Tasered5
Asphyxiated/Restrained1
Gunshot, Police Dog1
Physical Restraint1

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 (49) and Mapping Police Violence (28). 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).

Military surplus received

Transferred under the Department of Defense 1033 programme, which passes surplus military equipment to law enforcement agencies at no cost. Values are the Department’s original acquisition cost, not what the equipment is worth today.

$8.0mOriginal acquisition value
40Line items received
1998–2024Years of transfers
ItemQuantityAcquisition valueMost recent
Helicopter,Utility8$7.4m2010-10-06
Packbot 510 With Fastac Remotely Controlled Vehicle5$385,0002017-05-15
Operation Training Devices1$87,5002014-02-18
Truck,Utility1$49,8972001-08-09
Recon Scout Xt2$23,1132022-05-06
Tool Set,Aviation Foot Locker1$5,8842022-10-13
Tool Kit,Aircraft Maintenance3$5,7212024-12-10
Night Vision Equip, Emit, Reflected Rad1$5,0002013-09-19
Thermal Imagining Equipment1$5,0002013-09-19
Rifle,5.56 Millimeter10$4,9902002-09-17
Illuminator,Infrared25$4,7162015-04-15
Vehicular Furniture, Accesso Demil D19$2,3492014-03-06
Sight,Reflex35$1,3562010-11-24
Wire Rope Assembly,Single Leg3$7612024-12-10

Source: Defense Logistics Agency, Law Enforcement Support Office, public data as at 30 June 2026. Items are grouped by description; the date shown is the most recent shipment of that item.

Also policing Sacramento

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 CA0340000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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