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State University of New York Police: Buffalo

University or College agency in Erie, New York, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2021.

ORI: NY214UB00
Type: University or College
County: Erie
State: New York (NY)
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2021-06-01
Location: 42.7528, -78.7782

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025.

59Sworn officers

16Civilian staff

Year	Officers	Civilians	Per 1,000
2025	59	16	—
2023	57	15	—
2022	62	13	—
2021	61	13	—
2020	62	13	—
2019	62	12	—
2018	64	12	—
2017	57	13	—
2016	56	13	—
2015	57	10	—
2013	33	2	—
2012	61	9	—

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 State University of New York Police: Buffalo 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	1	0	0.0%
2025	12	7	1	14.3%
2024	12	10	1	10.0%
2023	12	3	1	33.3%
2022	12	9	0	0.0%
2021	7 of 12	2	1	50.0%
2020	12	6	5	83.3%
2019	12	12	6	50.0%

Property crime
Year	Months filed	Offences	Cleared	Cleared as % of offences
2026	7 of 12	103	9	8.7%
2025	12	158	27	17.1%
2024	12	218	26	11.9%
2023	12	208	12	5.8%
2022	12	196	7	3.6%
2021	7 of 12	104	2	1.9%
2020	12	92	18	19.6%
2019	12	208	56	26.9%

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 NY214UB00.

Arrests

Arrests made by State University of New York Police: Buffalo, all offences combined, as filed with the FBI and added up by calendar year, 2019–2026.

Year	Months filed	Arrests
2026	7 of 12	35
2025	12	59
2024	12	75
2023	12	43
2022	12	40
2021	7 of 12	4
2020	12	49
2019	12	134

“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 NY214UB00.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

1 incident appears in the FBI’s hate crime file for State University of New York Police: Buffalo 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
2023	5
2022	2
2021	1
2019	1
2016	7
2012	2
2009	1
2007	1
2006	2
2005	3
2004	7
2003	1
2002	4
2001	9
1995	16
1994	3
1993	10
1992	4

Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 1992–2025
Bias motivation	Incidents
Anti-Jewish	26
Anti-Black or African American	18
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)	10
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry	7
Anti-Other Religion	6
Anti-White	5
Anti-Gender Non-Conforming	3
Anti-Lesbian (Female)	3
Anti-Asian	1
Anti-Multiple Races, 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 NY214UB00.

Also policing Erie

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 NY214UB00. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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