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Aurora Police Department

City agency in Lawrence, Missouri. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2020.

ORI
MO0550100
Type
City
County
Lawrence
State
Missouri
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2020-11-01
Location
36.9750, -93.7179

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 7,665.

17Sworn officers
5Civilian staff
2.87Employees per 1,000 people
7,665Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
20251757,6652.87
20241857,6123.02
20231757,5132.93
20221667,3293.00
20201777,4413.23
20191667,4552.95
20181677,4783.08
20171767,5083.06
20161777,4713.21
20151677,4373.09
20141777,4933.20
20131577,4742.94

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.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

2 people have died during an encounter with Aurora Police Department between 2016 and 2018, according to Mapping Police Violence.

2Deaths recorded
26.09Per 100,000 people policed
20162018Period 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.

These records are compiled from news reports and public records by Mapping Police Violence, an independent research organisation — they are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. Used with permission.

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.

$13,833Original acquisition value
39Line items received
19942014Years of transfers
ItemQuantityAcquisition valueMost recent
Rifle,5.56 Millimeter16$10,1052014-09-23
Pistol, 40cal, Glock Gen 38$2,5602013-09-19
Pistol,Caliber .45,Automatic11$6462012-01-09
Rifle,7.62 Millimeter3$4142012-01-20
Shotgun,12 Gage,Riot Type1$1081999-01-28

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 Lawrence

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 MO0550100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.