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Willoughby Police Department

City agency in Lake, Ohio, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2015.

ORI: OH0431200
Type: City
County: Lake
State: Ohio (OH)
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2015-01-01
Location: 41.6287, -81.4223

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2024, covering a population of 24,261.

43Sworn officers

16Civilian staff

2.43Employees per 1,000 people

24,261Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2024	43	16	24,261	2.43
2023	41	15	24,261	2.31
2022	43	14	23,853	2.39
2020	42	14	23,058	2.43
2015	41	15	22,495	2.49
2014	40	14	22,501	2.40
2013	43	15	22,374	2.59
2012	42	15	22,251	2.56
2011	42	15	22,284	2.56
2010	44	15	22,268	2.65
2009	44	15	22,555	2.62
2008	44	15	22,384	2.64

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 Willoughby 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	20	8	40.0%
2025	12	23	11	47.8%
2024	12	26	15	57.7%
2023	12	23	14	60.9%
2022	12	24	15	62.5%
2021	12	11	4	36.4%
2020	12	13	5	38.5%
2019	12	19	4	21.1%

Property crime
Year	Months filed	Offences	Cleared	Cleared as % of offences
2026	9 of 12	121	38	31.4%
2025	12	193	41	21.2%
2024	12	227	41	18.1%
2023	12	267	25	9.4%
2022	12	231	40	17.3%
2021	12	231	24	10.4%
2020	12	360	44	12.2%
2019	12	323	58	18.0%

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 OH0431200.

Arrests

Arrests made by Willoughby 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	200
2025	12	284
2024	12	246
2023	12	286
2022	12	247
2021	12	112
2020	12	196
2019	12	301

“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 OH0431200.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

1 incident appears in the FBI’s hate crime file for Willoughby Police Department for 2020, 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
2020	1
2017	1
2009	1

Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 2009–2020
Bias motivation	Incidents
Anti-Black or African American	2
Anti-Mental Disability	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 OH0431200.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

2 people have died during an encounter with Willoughby Police Department between 2016 and 2026, according to the two datasets named below.

2Deaths recorded

8.24Per 100,000 people policed

2016–2026Period covered

Recorded cause	Deaths
Gunshot	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 Mapping Police Violence, which records deaths from 2013–2026. They are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. See Deaths for how these records are compiled. Mapping Police Violence data is displayed with attribution to its compiler; the written scope of this site’s right to display it is being confirmed (note dated 11 October 2026).

Assaults on officers

Officers of Willoughby Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 2002 and 2025. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reported	Officers assaulted
Firearm	0
Knife or other cutting instrument	0
Hands, fists or feet	7
Other weapon	9

Year	Hands, fists, feet	Other
2002	3	1
2016	0	1
2017	3	2
2018	1	0
2019	0	2
2020	0	1
2025	0	2

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 Lake

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 OH0431200. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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