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Dallas Police Department

City agency in Collin, Dallas, Denton, Texas, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2018.

ORI: TXDPD0000
Type: City
County: Collin, Dallas, Denton
State: Texas (TX)
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2018-03-01
Location: 32.7678, -96.7956

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 1,331,217.

3,268Sworn officers

698Civilian staff

2.98Employees per 1,000 people

1,331,217Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	3,268	698	1,331,217	2.98
2024	3,112	674	1,321,502	2.86
2023	3,047	637	1,304,989	2.82
2022	3,060	673	1,286,121	2.90
2021	3,118	643	1,349,185	2.79
2020	3,137	509	1,363,028	2.67
2019	3,075	549	1,363,295	2.66
2018	3,007	574	1,362,465	2.63
2017	3,053	605	1,338,551	2.73
2016	3,279	550	1,320,939	2.90
2015	3,484	556	1,301,977	3.10
2014	3,543	543	1,272,396	3.21

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 Dallas 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	4,773	1,632	34.2%
2025	12	7,674	2,390	31.1%
2024	12	8,747	2,279	26.1%
2023	12	9,025	2,161	23.9%
2022	12	10,254	2,199	21.4%
2021	12	11,180	2,582	23.1%
2020	12	12,261	2,455	20.0%
2019	12	11,888	2,255	19.0%

Property crime
Year	Months filed	Offences	Cleared	Cleared as % of offences
2026	8 of 12	25,728	1,236	4.8%
2025	12	40,962	1,692	4.1%
2024	12	45,102	1,707	3.8%
2023	12	52,637	1,527	2.9%
2022	12	49,219	1,485	3.0%
2021	12	46,989	1,488	3.2%
2020	12	46,989	1,735	3.7%
2019	12	46,770	2,215	4.7%

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 TXDPD0000.

Arrests

Arrests made by Dallas 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	16,993
2025	12	22,576
2024	12	20,247
2023	12	19,265
2022	12	21,193
2021	12	23,593
2020	12	23,027
2019	12	32,901

“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 TXDPD0000.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

24 incidents appear in the FBI’s hate crime file for Dallas 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	24
2024	23
2023	31
2022	29
2021	17
2020	40
2019	31
2018	30
2017	14
2016	11
2015	11
2014	15
2013	18
2012	30
2011	16
2010	12
2009	11
2008	17
2007	23
2006	39
2005	45
2004	48
2003	41
2002	47
2001	29
2000	26
1999	13
1998	19
1997	40
1996	70
1995	40
1994	41
1993	59
1992	86
1991	94

Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 1991–2025
Bias motivation	Incidents
Anti-Black or African American	317
Anti-Gay (Male)	222
Anti-White	149
Anti-Jewish	116
Anti-Hispanic or Latino	115
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)	52
Anti-Asian	33
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry	32
Anti-Lesbian (Female)	20
Anti-Arab	17
Anti-Islamic (Muslim)	13
Anti-Protestant	13
Anti-Transgender	13
Anti-Multiple Races, Group	10
Anti-Other Religion	6
Anti-Catholic	3
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group	2
Anti-American Indian or Alaska Native	1
Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism	1
Anti-Gender Non-Conforming	1
Anti-Male	1
Anti-Mental Disability	1
Anti-Physical Disability	1

1 of these incidents records 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-Gay (Male) + Anti-Jewish — 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 TXDPD0000.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

184 people have died during an encounter with Dallas Police Department between 2001 and 2026, according to the two datasets named below.

184Deaths recorded

13.82Per 100,000 people policed

2001–2026Period covered

Recorded cause	Deaths
Gunshot	123
Drug overdose	17
Medical emergency	13
Vehicle	10
Tasered	5
Asphyxiated/Restrained	5
Beaten/Bludgeoned with instrument	2
Taser	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: these records come from Fatal Encounters (124) and Mapping Police Violence (60). 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 Dallas 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	538
Knife or other cutting instrument	113
Hands, fists or feet	2,692
Other weapon	882

Year	Firearm	Knife	Hands, fists, feet	Other
1995	21	4	65	22
1996	21	7	63	27
1997	25	6	56	40
1998	14	6	49	35
1999	18	5	49	48
2000	9	3	65	41
2001	13	3	56	30
2002	9	2	50	20
2003	14	4	52	25
2004	7	2	52	24
2005	10	1	41	28
2006	10	2	51	29
2007	6	1	50	23
2008	11	1	53	24
2009	12	0	55	15
2010	6	4	56	22
2011	8	4	56	14
2012	9	1	57	18
2013	15	5	52	23
2014	14	6	59	12
2015	6	3	48	11
2016	5	2	42	14
2017	5	3	40	12
2018	23	3	167	48
2019	35	2	162	57
2020	37	6	172	33
2021	47	2	234	47
2022	21	3	197	43
2023	39	6	168	34
2024	41	10	149	21
2025	27	6	226	42

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.

Texas racial-profiling report filings

The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) lists a racial-profiling report submitted for Dallas Police Department. The filing status is TCOLE’s own word. This section shows that a filing was made and when; it does not show what the report says.

Reporting year	Filing status (TCOLE’s word)	Submitted	Total stops, as filed
2025	Full	2026-02-03	146,666
2024	Full	2025-02-18	129,828

TCOLE lists this department as “DALLAS POLICE DEPT.”.

The stop count is a raw number as filed. It is not a rate, and Police Census does not compare it with a population or with other departments. A dash means TCOLE’s file carries no usable count for that row. The register is matched to TCOLE’s list by name, and only where exactly one agency fits.

Re-use terms not verified. TCOLE publishes no licence, no public-domain dedication and no re-use statement for this data; its site carries only a copyright notice (“Copyright © 2023 Texas Commission on Law Enforcement”). Police Census has not verified the terms on which it may be re-used, and shows it on that footing.

Source: Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, racial profiling reports, read on 2026-10-12.

Also policing Collin, Dallas, Denton

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

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Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record TXDPD0000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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