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Philadelphia Police Department

City agency in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2021.

ORI: PAPEP0000
Type: City
County: Philadelphia
State: Pennsylvania (PA)
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2021-04-01
Location: 40.0047, -75.1881

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 1,562,379.

5,065Sworn officers

817Civilian staff

3.76Employees per 1,000 people

1,562,379Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	5,065	817	1,562,379	3.76
2024	5,151	817	1,549,259	3.85
2023	5,444	822	1,550,843	4.04
2022	5,800	1,384	1,555,812	4.62
2020	6,359	781	1,586,666	4.50
2019	6,584	828	1,589,014	4.66
2018	6,577	789	1,586,916	4.64
2017	6,558	789	1,575,595	4.66
2016	6,313	1,682	1,570,826	5.09
2015	6,413	816	1,567,810	4.61
2014	6,410	825	1,559,062	4.64
2013	6,508	817	1,553,153	4.72

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 Philadelphia 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	8 of 12	7,407	3,624	48.9%
2025	12	12,966	5,680	43.8%
2024	12	14,209	5,655	39.8%
2023	12	15,384	5,212	33.9%
2022	12	16,394	4,879	29.8%
2021	12	15,831	4,704	29.7%
2020	12	15,492	5,744	37.1%
2019	12	13,934	6,261	44.9%

Property crime
Year	Months filed	Offences	Cleared	Cleared as % of offences
2026	8 of 12	38,189	3,820	10.0%
2025	12	68,025	6,561	9.6%
2024	12	71,505	6,448	9.0%
2023	12	79,428	4,730	6.0%
2022	12	68,206	3,979	5.8%
2021	12	52,139	3,641	7.0%
2020	12	48,251	5,543	11.5%
2019	12	45,893	6,490	14.1%

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 PAPEP0000.

Arrests

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

Year	Months filed	Arrests
2026	8 of 12	18,715
2025	12	35,097
2024	12	30,952
2023	12	24,305
2022	12	24,179
2021	12	27,210
2020	12	41,031
2019	12	63,161

“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 PAPEP0000.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

64 incidents appear in the FBI’s hate crime file for Philadelphia 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	64
2024	102
2023	103
2022	143
2021	167
2020	50
2019	14
2018	42
2017	38
2016	38
2015	14
2014	11
2013	8
2012	11
2010	8
2009	6
2008	21
2007	28
2006	33
2005	26
2004	14
2003	44
2002	45
2001	48
2000	53
1999	70
1998	74
1997	77
1996	97
1995	147
1994	120
1993	202
1991	123

Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 1991–2025
Bias motivation	Incidents
Anti-Black or African American	779
Anti-Jewish	342
Anti-White	222
Anti-Hispanic or Latino	202
Anti-Asian	112
Anti-Gay (Male)	89
Anti-Multiple Races, Group	59
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)	50
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry	41
Anti-Islamic (Muslim)	20
Anti-Other Religion	20
Anti-American Indian or Alaska Native	15
Anti-Arab	13
Anti-Catholic	12
Anti-Lesbian (Female)	11
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group	8
Anti-Transgender	7
Anti-Protestant	3
Anti-Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Other)	2
Anti-Gender Non-Conforming	2
Anti-Hindu	2
Anti-Mental Disability	2
Anti-Bisexual	1
Anti-Female	1
Anti-Jehovah's Witness	1
Anti-Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	1
Anti-Other Christian	1
Anti-Physical Disability	1
Unknown (offender's motivation not known)	1

21 of these incidents record 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-Black or African American + Anti-Jewish — 8
Anti-Black or African American + Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group) — 3
Anti-Arab + Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry — 1
Anti-Asian + Anti-Gay (Male) — 1
Anti-Black or African American + Anti-Gay (Male) — 1
Anti-Gay (Male) + Anti-Jewish — 1
Anti-Gay (Male) + Anti-Lesbian (Female) — 1
Anti-Jehovah's Witness + Anti-Jewish — 1
Anti-Jewish + Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group) — 1
Anti-Lesbian (Female) + Anti-White — 1
Anti-Mental Disability + Anti-White — 1
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry + Anti-White — 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 PAPEP0000.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

256 people have died during an encounter with Philadelphia Police Department between 2000 and 2026, according to the two datasets named below.

256Deaths recorded

16.39Per 100,000 people policed

2000–2026Period covered

Recorded cause	Deaths
Gunshot	222
Vehicle	22
Medical emergency	3
Tasered	2
Gunshot, Taser	2
Drug overdose	1
Other	1
Taser, Baton	1

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: these records come from Fatal Encounters (190) and Mapping Police Violence (66). Where both recorded the same death it is counted once. They are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. See Deaths for how the two are combined. 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 Philadelphia 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	1,620
Knife or other cutting instrument	629
Hands, fists or feet	12,362
Other weapon	3,885

Year	Firearm	Knife	Hands, fists, feet	Other
1995	22	10	85	24
1996	17	7	82	30
1997	30	13	81	28
1998	37	16	88	53
1999	36	16	82	59
2000	36	16	93	55
2001	37	14	88	57
2002	31	8	90	46
2003	35	11	85	46
2004	56	25	100	72
2005	55	21	105	71
2006	57	24	104	72
2007	56	21	100	69
2008	51	26	107	75
2009	49	23	95	74
2010	38	15	100	68
2011	30	23	94	54
2012	36	16	99	55
2013	31	11	83	50
2014	26	11	93	30
2015	18	7	83	33
2016	25	7	87	43
2017	14	9	93	33
2018	17	3	89	32
2019	19	11	81	22
2020	26	6	86	39
2021	110	33	1,092	269
2022	169	43	1,353	328
2023	154	70	1,750	543
2024	80	62	2,492	687
2025	222	51	3,302	768

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 Philadelphia

Jurisdictions overlap. These agencies are also recorded against the same county, so a single address may be covered by more than one of them.

Bureau of Forestry: Philadelphia CountyOther State Agency · never reported Drexel UniversityUniversity or College · never reported Office of Attorney General Region 1: Philadelphia CountyOther State Agency · never reported State Park Rangers: Ben RushOther State Agency · never reported State Police: Philadelphia CountyState Police · reporting Temple UniversityUniversity or College · never reported University of PennsylvaniaUniversity or College · never reported

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record PAPEP0000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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