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Janesville Police Department

City agency in Rock, Wisconsin, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2018.

ORI
WI0540200
Type
City
County
Rock
State
Wisconsin (WI)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2018-01-01
Location
42.6699, -89.0751

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 66,624.

98Sworn officers
12Civilian staff
1.65Employees per 1,000 people
66,624Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025981266,6241.65
20241041366,2471.77
2023971366,0331.67
20221041366,2421.77
20211001264,7681.73
20201031164,6821.76
20191041364,6871.81
20181031164,4711.77
2017991464,2571.76
2016971164,2341.68
20151001364,1221.76
20141001363,8851.77

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 Janesville 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
20263 of 12221568.2%
202512816175.3%
202412956871.6%
2023121258265.6%
2022121147565.8%
2021121499563.8%
2020121458357.2%
2019121489362.8%
Property crime
YearMonths filedOffencesClearedCleared as % of offences
20263 of 122078641.5%
2025121,04537035.4%
2024121,22942034.2%
2023121,19743536.3%
2022121,31139730.3%
2021121,18528223.8%
2020121,40039228.0%
2019121,58549631.3%

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 WI0540200.

Arrests

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

YearMonths filedArrests
20263 of 12851
2025123,504
2024123,562
2023123,472
2022123,436
2021123,113
2020122,650
2019123,725

“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 WI0540200.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

2 incidents appear in the FBI’s hate crime file for Janesville 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
20233
20221
20211
20202
20192
20183
20161
20151
20142
20132
20102
20091
20081
20072
20062
20051
20041
20021
19991
19941
Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 1994–2025
Bias motivationIncidents
Anti-Black or African American19
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)4
Anti-Hispanic or Latino2
Anti-Asian1
Anti-Catholic1
Anti-Female1
Anti-Gay (Male)1
Anti-Gender Non-Conforming1
Anti-Mental Disability1
Anti-Other Religion1
Anti-White1

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 WI0540200.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

2 people have died during an encounter with Janesville Police Department between 2003 and 2024, according to the two datasets named below.

2Deaths recorded
3.00Per 100,000 people policed
2003–2024Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot2

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 (1) and Mapping Police Violence (1). 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 Janesville 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
Firearm4
Knife or other cutting instrument1
Hands, fists or feet363
Other weapon33
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19952030
19961000
19990040
20000050
20010020
20020060
20030070
20040042
20050040
20060060
20070030
20080041
20090040
20100040
20110021
20120070
20130030
20140040
20150010
20160060
20170042
201800241
201900125
202001333
202100453
202200340
202310640
202400357
202500338

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.

Military surplus received

Transferred under the Department of Defense 1033 programme, which passes surplus military equipment to law enforcement agencies at no cost. Values are the Department’s original acquisition cost, not what the equipment is worth today.

$1,932Original acquisition value
14Line items received
2000–2001Years of transfers
ItemQuantityAcquisition valueMost recent
Rifle,7.62 Millimeter14$1,9322001-06-15

Source: Defense Logistics Agency, Law Enforcement Support Office, public data as at 30 June 2026. Items are grouped by description; the date shown is the most recent shipment of that item.

Also policing Rock

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 WI0540200. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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