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Greenwood Police Department

City agency in Sussex, Delaware, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2001.

ORI
DE0031400
Type
City
County
Sussex
State
Delaware (DE)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2001-01-01
Location
38.6775, -75.3355

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 1,158.

3Sworn officers
1Civilian staff
3.45Employees per 1,000 people
1,158Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025311,1583.45
2024101,1230.89
2023311,0953.65
2022201,0621.88
2021311,1973.34
2020311,1593.45
2019311,1383.51
2018311,1163.58
2017321,1054.52
2016411,0864.60
2015421,0635.64
2014411,0384.82

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 Greenwood 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
20265 of 1200—
2025124375.0%
20241211100.0%
2023122150.0%
20221200—
20211277100.0%
202012200.0%
2019126583.3%
Property crime
YearMonths filedOffencesClearedCleared as % of offences
20265 of 124125.0%
20251213538.5%
20241213538.5%
20231224729.2%
2022121317.7%
2021128337.5%
20201214642.9%
20191219842.1%

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 DE0031400.

Arrests

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

YearMonths filedArrests
20265 of 123
20251219
20241214
20231230
2022124
20211226
20201226
20191242

“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 DE0031400.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

1 incident appears in the FBI’s hate crime file for Greenwood Police Department for 2006, as at 14 August 2026.

Incidents appearing in the FBI’s file, as at 14 August 2026
YearIncidents appearing in the file
20061
Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 2006
Bias motivationIncidents
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)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 DE0031400.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

1 person has died during an encounter with Greenwood Police Department between 2012 and 2012, according to the two datasets named below.

1Deaths recorded
86.36Per 100,000 people policed
2012–2012Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Vehicle1

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: every one of these records comes from Fatal Encounters, which records deaths from 2000–2021. They are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. See Deaths for how these records are compiled.

Assaults on officers

Officers of Greenwood Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1999 and 2024. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm1
Knife or other cutting instrument0
Hands, fists or feet7
Other weapon1
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19990010
20020011
20090010
20111000
20150020
20170010
20240010

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 Sussex

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 DE0031400. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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