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Chisago County Sheriff's Office

County agency in Chisago, Minnesota, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2020.

ORI
MN0130000
Type
County
County
Chisago
State
Minnesota (MN)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2020-06-01
Location
45.4, -92.8225

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 27,988.

48Sworn officers
47Civilian staff
3.39Employees per 1,000 people
27,988Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025484727,9883.39
2024484728,5613.33
2023424728,1493.16
2022444228,0943.06
2021434728,1803.19
2020445527,7413.57
2019445527,6043.59
2018435527,3723.58
2017424127,3323.04
2016404526,9333.16
2015403726,7122.88
2014403726,6502.89

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 Chisago 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
20268 of 1210770.0%
202512161275.0%
202412281553.6%
202312472961.7%
202212291965.5%
202112442863.6%
202012281242.9%
201912121191.7%
Property crime
YearMonths filedOffencesClearedCleared as % of offences
20268 of 12411229.3%
202512902224.4%
202412992626.3%
2023121232016.3%
2022121972512.7%
2021122672710.1%
2020121502617.3%
2019121524127.0%

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 MN0130000.

Arrests

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

YearMonths filedArrests
20268 of 12246
202512376
202412328
202312452
202212394
202112418
202012339
201912634

“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 MN0130000.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

1 incident appears in the FBI’s hate crime file for Chisago County Sheriff's Office for 2012, 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
20121
20101
20051
20042
Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 2004–2012
Bias motivationIncidents
Anti-Asian2
Anti-Black or African American1
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry1
Anti-White1

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 MN0130000.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

2 people have died during an encounter with Chisago County Sheriff's Office between 2005 and 2012, according to the two datasets named below.

2Deaths recorded
7.15Per 100,000 people policed
2005–2012Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot2

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.

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.

$1.5mOriginal acquisition value
50Line items received
2005–2022Years of transfers
ItemQuantityAcquisition valueMost recent
Mine Resistant Vehicle1$865,0002016-07-05
Truck,Utility1$192,5132017-03-22
Image Intensifier,Night Vision5$171,0092022-01-27
Thermal Imaging System10$92,2532021-07-09
Image Intensifier N8$83,2162021-03-31
Sight,Night Vision Sniperscope5$74,3432020-02-05
Rifle,5.56 Millimeter14$6,9862005-10-26
Viewer,Night Vision1$3,3952021-03-18
Sight,Infinity4$2,2362021-11-17
Mount,Viewer10$1,0202021-10-28
Illuminator,Integrated,Small Arms23$9702021-01-26
Modification Kit,Gun,Weapon10$4102019-09-25
Spotting Instrument,Optical2$3712017-02-14

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 Chisago

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 MN0130000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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