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Oakland Police Department

City agencyCA0010900Not reporting NIBRSLEMAS 2020Founded 1853

Alameda County, California

Serves ~444,211 residents · UCR reported

Crime trendsNIBRSLEMASPoliciesOpen dataPOP projects

The Oakland Police Department (OPD) is a law enforcement agency responsible for policing the city of Oakland, California, United States. As of May 2021, the department employed 709 sworn officers and 371 civilian employees. The department is divided into 5 geographical divisions policing Oakland's 78 square miles and population of 420,000. The OPD receives 550,000 annual calls for service, and responds to over 250,000 law enforcement incidents.

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Crime & staffing trends

Reported offenses by year

Summary Reporting System counts from the FBI Crime Data Explorer.

Staffing by year

Police employment counts reported to the FBI UCR program.

NIBRS incident detail

This agency does not report incident-based (NIBRS) data to the FBI, so no victim, offender, or weapon breakdowns are available. Summary-level reporting may still appear in the trends above.

Open data

Curated sources
Possible sources (44) — portal matches not yet confirmed

1 Jan - 30 June 2013 Calls For Servicedata.oaklandca.gov

1 Jan - 30 June 2014 Calls For Servicedata.oaklandca.gov

1 Jan - 30 June 2015 Calls For Servicedata.oaklandca.gov

1 July - 15 Oct 2015 Calls For Servicedata.oaklandca.gov

1 July - 31 Dec 2013 Calls For Servicedata.oaklandca.gov

1 July - 31 Dec 2014 Calls For Servicedata.oaklandca.gov

All License Plate Reader Data (ALPR) September 23, 2012 - October 20, 2012data.oaklandca.gov

All license plate reader data (ALPR) 12-23-2010 thru 01-19-2011data.oaklandca.gov

All license plate reader data (ALPR) 4/1/14 thru 5/31/14data.oaklandca.gov

All license plate reader data (ALPR) 04/01/2014 thru 05/31/2014data.oaklandca.gov

All license plate reader data (ALPR) 10/20/2012-11/20/2012data.oaklandca.gov

All license plate reader data (ALPR) 11/20/2012-12/31/2012data.oaklandca.gov

All license plate reader data (ALPR) 12/19/2013-1/31/2014data.oaklandca.gov

All license plate reader data (ALPR) 3/1/2013-4/1/2013data.oaklandca.gov

All license plate reader data (ALPR) 3/19/2014-3/31/2014data.oaklandca.gov

All license plate reader data (ALPR) 5/13/2012-7/3/2012data.oaklandca.gov

All license plate reader data (ALPR) 7/6/2011-12/19/2011data.oaklandca.gov

All license plate reader data (ALPR) 8/26/2012-9/19/2012data.oaklandca.gov

All license plate reader data (ALPR) 8/6/2012-8/12/2012data.oaklandca.gov

All license plate reader data (ALPR) 9/15/2012data.oaklandca.gov

April 2013 To Dec 2013data.oaklandca.gov

Attrition from Academydata.oaklandca.gov

Attrition from Field Trainingdata.oaklandca.gov

Crime Data 2015data.oaklandca.gov

CrimeWatch Datadata.oaklandca.gov

CrimeWatch Maps Past 90-Daysdata.oaklandca.gov

Jan 2014 To May 2015data.oaklandca.gov

Jun 2014 - May 2015data.oaklandca.gov

Jun 2015 - May 2016data.oaklandca.gov

Jun 2016 - 15 Aug 2016data.oaklandca.gov

PRR # 10437data.oaklandca.gov

PRR #10437data.oaklandca.gov

PRR 21720data.oaklandca.gov

Police Response Timesdata.oaklandca.gov

Problem Solving Officer Directorydata.oaklandca.gov

Records For 2011data.oaklandca.gov

Records For 2012data.oaklandca.gov

Shotspotter Data 1-1-13 To 12-31-14data.oaklandca.gov

Shotspotter Data 7-15-15 To 8-1-15data.oaklandca.gov

Shotspotter Data 8-1-15 To 8-31-15data.oaklandca.gov

Shotspotter Data 8-16-15 To 9-15-15data.oaklandca.gov

Shotspotter Data 9-16-15 To 10-6-15data.oaklandca.gov

Stop Data April 2013 To Sept. 2015data.oaklandca.gov

Stopsdata.oaklandca.gov

Staffing

LEMAS 2020 survey
Full-time sworn
724
Part-time sworn
0
Full-time civilian
363
Part-time civilian
26
Total FT employees
1,087
Population served
424,891
Operating budget
$316,555,702
Body-worn cameras: yesCommunity policing plan: yes

Source: BJS LEMAS 2020 (ICPSR) · all waves 1987–2020

Earlier LEMAS surveys
WaveFT swornFT civilianBudget
2013616304$200,000,000
2007725350$192,000,000
2003785385$157,313,965
2000710378$127,724,062
1999641354
1997617435
1993675361
1990616328

Staffing as reported in each BJS LEMAS survey wave; wave links go to the ICPSR study pages.

FBI police employment
Sworn officers (2025)
633
Civilians (2025)
241

Reported annually to the FBI UCR program; full history charted above.

Open data

Public policy portal

Published policy documents on PowerDMS.

Browse policies
City of Oakland open data

POP conference activity

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