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San Clemente Police Department

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

ORI: CA0301700
Type: City
County: Orange
State: California (CA)
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2021-06-01
Location: 33.6757, -117.7772

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2015, covering a population of 65,755.

1Sworn officers

0Civilian staff

0.02Employees per 1,000 people

65,755Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2015	1	0	65,755	0.02
2014	1	0	65,397	0.02
2011	1	0	64,269	0.02
1998	47	21	46,937	1.45
1993	47	21	43,576	1.56
1992	47	21	42,628	1.60
1991	49	20	41,956	1.64
1990	50	19	41,100	1.68
1989	46	19	39,776	1.63
1988	46	18	34,622	1.85
1987	41	19	34,039	1.76
1986	42	20	31,379	1.98

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 San Clemente 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	8 of 12	62	39	62.9%
2025	12	103	72	69.9%
2024	12	113	79	69.9%
2023	12	95	61	64.2%
2022	12	144	89	61.8%
2021	11 of 12	54	34	63.0%
2020	12	92	59	64.1%
2019	12	87	70	80.5%

Property crime
Year	Months filed	Offences	Cleared	Cleared as % of offences
2026	8 of 12	292	35	12.0%
2025	12	542	141	26.0%
2024	12	791	140	17.7%
2023	12	903	127	14.1%
2022	12	914	88	9.6%
2021	11 of 12	468	56	12.0%
2020	12	870	168	19.3%
2019	12	922	242	26.2%

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 CA0301700.

Arrests

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

Year	Months filed	Arrests
2026	8 of 12	687
2025	12	1,071
2024	12	1,001
2023	12	1,111
2022	12	1,043
2021	11 of 12	488
2020	12	1,811
2019	12	2,421

“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 CA0301700.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

1 incident appears in the FBI’s hate crime file for San Clemente 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	1
2024	3
2023	1
2022	1
2021	1
2020	1
2019	5
2018	2
2017	1
2014	2
2012	1
2011	1
2008	1
2007	2
2006	1
2005	2
2004	1
2001	1
2000	1
1999	2
1998	2
1997	3
1996	4
1995	3

Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 1995–2025
Bias motivation	Incidents
Anti-Black or African American	10
Anti-Hispanic or Latino	5
Anti-Jewish	5
Anti-Multiple Races, Group	5
Anti-Gay (Male)	3
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)	3
Anti-Arab	2
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group	2
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry	2
Anti-Asian	1
Anti-Islamic (Muslim)	1
Anti-Lesbian (Female)	1
Anti-Protestant	1
Anti-Transgender	1

1 of these incidents records 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-Gay (Male) + Anti-Transgender — 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 CA0301700.

Assaults on officers

Officers of San Clemente Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 2001 and 2025. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reported	Officers assaulted
Firearm	0
Knife or other cutting instrument	4
Hands, fists or feet	195
Other weapon	47

Year	Knife	Hands, fists, feet	Other
2001	0	4	0
2002	0	3	0
2003	0	7	1
2004	0	13	3
2005	0	5	1
2006	0	6	1
2007	0	12	1
2008	0	7	2
2009	0	4	2
2010	0	11	1
2011	0	11	2
2012	0	7	0
2013	1	13	2
2014	1	9	0
2015	0	5	1
2016	0	4	5
2017	1	4	3
2018	0	5	3
2019	0	7	3
2020	0	5	3
2022	0	12	7
2023	0	7	1
2024	0	13	4
2025	1	21	1

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 CA0301700. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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