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Hampton Police Department

City agency in Hampton City, Virginia, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2000.

ORI
VA1110000
Type
City
County
Hampton City
State
Virginia (VA)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2000-01-01
Location
37.048, -76.2971

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 138,041.

266Sworn officers
104Civilian staff
2.68Employees per 1,000 people
138,041Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025266104138,0412.68
2024264102138,1002.65
202326099138,5332.59
2022271127138,8432.87
202129799135,1072.93
2020325101134,0823.18
201928592133,1732.83
2018270101133,9652.77
201726596134,9292.68
2016271122135,5042.90
2015287113136,3812.93
2014291101136,5902.87

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 Hampton 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
20268 of 1219510352.8%
20251238120453.5%
20241234319857.7%
20231239519449.1%
20221238115741.2%
20211239413935.3%
20201235817047.5%
20191238716442.4%
Property crime
YearMonths filedOffencesClearedCleared as % of offences
20268 of 121,95831416.0%
2025123,97358914.8%
2024124,00757014.2%
2023124,18551012.2%
2022124,0733689.0%
2021123,4693379.7%
2020123,36547714.2%
2019123,97869617.5%

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 VA1110000.

Arrests

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

YearMonths filedArrests
20268 of 122,552
2025124,465
2024124,693
2023124,447
2022124,146
2021123,926
2020124,336
2019126,156

“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 VA1110000.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

1 incident appears in the FBI’s hate crime file for Hampton 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
20251
20213
20201
20192
20183
20173
20161
20154
20142
20132
20111
20106
20091
20085
20076
20064
200510
20045
200311
20029
200112
20009
19943
19932
Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 1993–2025
Bias motivationIncidents
Anti-Black or African American46
Anti-White27
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry8
Anti-Gay (Male)4
Anti-Lesbian (Female)4
Anti-Islamic (Muslim)3
Anti-Multiple Races, Group3
Anti-Asian2
Anti-Jewish2
Anti-Other Religion2
Anti-Arab1
Anti-Catholic1
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)1
Anti-Mental Disability1
Anti-Protestant1

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 VA1110000.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

12 people have died during an encounter with Hampton Police Department between 2001 and 2019, according to the two datasets named below.

12Deaths recorded
8.69Per 100,000 people policed
2001–2019Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot8
Vehicle2
Medical emergency1
Tasered1

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 Hampton 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
Firearm6
Knife or other cutting instrument6
Hands, fists or feet411
Other weapon53
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
199500250
199600201
199701251
199801240
199900133
20000001
20010021
20020010
20051000
20060010
20070010
20090011
20110082
201200144
201300194
20142095
20150072
20161061
201700151
201802201
201900430
202000408
202102174
202200254
202320311
202400177
202500271

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.

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record VA1110000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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