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Highland Park Police Department

City agency in Middlesex, New Jersey, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2021.

ORI: NJ0120700
Type: City
County: Middlesex
State: New Jersey (NJ)
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2021-02-01
Location: 40.4979, -74.4228

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 15,457.

27Sworn officers

7Civilian staff

2.20Employees per 1,000 people

15,457Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	27	7	15,457	2.20
2024	27	7	15,260	2.23
2023	27	7	15,018	2.26
2022	27	7	14,914	2.28
2021	26	8	14,126	2.41
2020	28	7	13,666	2.56
2019	28	8	13,791	2.61
2018	26	6	13,989	2.29
2017	27	7	14,287	2.38
2016	28	7	14,346	2.44
2015	26	7	14,525	2.27
2014	27	6	14,478	2.28

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 Highland Park 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	7 of 12	12	8	66.7%
2025	12	16	7	43.8%
2024	12	23	6	26.1%
2023	12	12	7	58.3%
2022	12	20	6	30.0%
2021	10 of 12	2	1	50.0%
2020	12	5	3	60.0%
2019	12	14	12	85.7%

Property crime
Year	Months filed	Offences	Cleared	Cleared as % of offences
2026	7 of 12	70	0	0.0%
2025	12	118	6	5.1%
2024	12	188	8	4.3%
2023	12	203	8	3.9%
2022	12	130	7	5.4%
2021	10 of 12	85	2	2.4%
2020	12	149	15	10.1%
2019	12	222	35	15.8%

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 NJ0120700.

Arrests

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

Year	Months filed	Arrests
2026	7 of 12	37
2025	12	77
2024	12	93
2023	12	67
2022	12	94
2021	10 of 12	43
2020	12	102
2019	12	220

“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 NJ0120700.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

2 incidents appear in the FBI’s hate crime file for Highland Park 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	2
2024	11
2022	2
2021	2
2020	7
2019	3
2018	1
2017	4
2016	3
2015	3
2014	4
2013	8
2012	15
2011	9
2009	1
2008	2
2007	3
2003	1
2001	2
2000	2
1997	1
1996	3
1995	2
1994	3
1993	5
1992	8
1991	5

Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 1991–2025
Bias motivation	Incidents
Anti-Jewish	47
Anti-Black or African American	32
Anti-Gay (Male)	13
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry	5
Anti-White	5
Anti-Lesbian (Female)	3
Anti-Hispanic or Latino	2
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)	2
Anti-Asian	1
Anti-Gender Non-Conforming	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-Multiple Races, Group + Anti-Other Religion — 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 NJ0120700.

Assaults on officers

Officers of Highland Park Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1995 and 2025. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reported	Officers assaulted
Firearm	0
Knife or other cutting instrument	3
Hands, fists or feet	23
Other weapon	5

Year	Knife	Hands, fists, feet	Other
1995	0	1	0
1996	0	2	1
1997	0	2	0
2003	0	1	0
2004	0	2	0
2005	0	1	0
2006	0	3	0
2009	0	3	0
2010	0	3	0
2011	0	1	1
2015	0	0	1
2018	0	1	0
2022	0	1	1
2023	0	1	0
2024	3	0	0
2025	0	1	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 Middlesex

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 NJ0120700. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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