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Independence Police Department

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

ORI: OH0182500
Type: City
County: Cuyahoga
State: Ohio (OH)
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2001-10-01
Location: 41.3763, -81.6399

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2018, covering a population of 7,135.

32Sworn officers

13Civilian staff

6.31Employees per 1,000 people

7,135Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2018	32	13	7,135	6.31
2016	31	13	7,132	6.17
2015	30	13	7,139	6.02
2014	30	12	7,147	5.88
2011	32	11	7,138	6.02
2010	32	12	7,133	6.17
2008	34	14	6,785	7.07
2007	35	14	6,760	7.25
2006	35	14	6,877	7.13
2005	37	14	7,041	7.24
2004	33	15	7,110	6.75
2003	34	16	7,158	6.99

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 Independence 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	9 of 12	7	5	71.4%
2025	12	11	8	72.7%
2024	12	12	5	41.7%
2023	12	12	9	75.0%
2022	12	17	11	64.7%
2021	12	15	8	53.3%
2020	12	21	12	57.1%
2019	12	5	3	60.0%

Property crime
Year	Months filed	Offences	Cleared	Cleared as % of offences
2026	9 of 12	35	9	25.7%
2025	12	68	26	38.2%
2024	12	91	32	35.2%
2023	12	102	19	18.6%
2022	12	116	20	17.2%
2021	12	157	33	21.0%
2020	12	138	16	11.6%
2019	12	120	15	12.5%

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 OH0182500.

Arrests

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

Year	Months filed	Arrests
2026	9 of 12	247
2025	12	414
2024	12	380
2023	12	425
2022	12	386
2021	12	299
2020	12	169
2019	12	266

“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 OH0182500.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

1 incident appears in the FBI’s hate crime file for Independence Police Department for 2024, 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
2024	1
2016	1
2015	2
2014	1

Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 2014–2024
Bias motivation	Incidents
Anti-White	3
Anti-Heterosexual	2

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 OH0182500.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

2 people have died during an encounter with Independence Police Department between 2000 and 2000, according to the two datasets named below.

2Deaths recorded

28.03Per 100,000 people policed

2000–2000Period covered

Recorded cause	Deaths
Vehicle	2

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 Independence Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 2018 and 2025. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reported	Officers assaulted
Firearm	0
Knife or other cutting instrument	2
Hands, fists or feet	7
Other weapon	2

Year	Knife	Hands, fists, feet	Other
2018	0	1	0
2021	0	1	0
2022	1	0	0
2023	0	2	2
2024	1	1	0
2025	0	2	0

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 Cuyahoga

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 OH0182500. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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