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Franklin Police Department

City agency in Williamson, Tennessee, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 1999.

ORI
TN0940100
Type
City
County
Williamson
State
Tennessee (TN)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 1999-09-01
Location
35.8951, -86.8968

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 90,436.

138Sworn officers
13Civilian staff
1.67Employees per 1,000 people
90,436Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
20251381390,4361.67
20241321390,0771.61
20231301288,3151.61
20221401387,0811.76
20211301187,9691.60
20201231285,7221.57
20191321283,5171.72
20181301380,8251.77
20171291076,9951.81
20161281174,7711.86
20151232672,6962.05
20141182570,4852.03

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 Franklin 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
YearMonths filedOffencesClearedCleared as % of offences
20269 of 121117164.0%
2025121558957.4%
2024121237762.6%
2023121338362.4%
2022121759856.0%
20211216410664.6%
2020121979849.7%
2019121437250.3%
Property crime
YearMonths filedOffencesClearedCleared as % of offences
20269 of 1238411028.6%
20251262719931.7%
20241285825629.8%
20231291623826.0%
20221290420122.2%
20211270113018.5%
20201278513016.6%
20191293029731.9%

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 TN0940100.

Arrests

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

YearMonths filedArrests
20269 of 121,035
2025121,442
2024121,419
2023121,472
2022121,588
2021121,385
2020121,454
2019121,704

“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 TN0940100.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

2 incidents appear in the FBI’s hate crime file for Franklin 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
YearIncidents appearing in the file
20252
20232
20224
20215
20204
20184
20161
20131
20121
20112
20101
20091
20088
20073
20061
20052
20041
20031
20021
20015
20001
Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 2000–2025
Bias motivationIncidents
Anti-Black or African American20
Anti-Jewish7
Anti-White4
Anti-Gay (Male)3
Anti-Islamic (Muslim)3
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry3
Anti-Hispanic or Latino2
Anti-Lesbian (Female)2
Anti-Other Religion2
Anti-Buddhist1
Anti-Church of Jesus Christ1
Anti-Multiple Races, Group1
Anti-Protestant1
Anti-Transgender1

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 TN0940100.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

1 person has died during an encounter with Franklin Police Department between 2023 and 2023, according to the two datasets named below.

1Deaths recorded
1.11Per 100,000 people policed
2023–2023Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot1

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 Franklin 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 reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm14
Knife or other cutting instrument7
Hands, fists or feet230
Other weapon120
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19951000
19960010
19970010
20001024
20012006
20020126
20030045
20040047
20050085
20060051
20070163
20080056
200920141
20100195
20110143
201200104
20130093
20141151
20150162
20160072
201710132
201800143
20191022
202020174
202101188
2022101114
2023101116
202400293
202510134

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 Williamson

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 TN0940100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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