FBI agency record
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office
Los Angeles County, California
Serves ~945,223 residents · UCR reported
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD), officially the County of Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, is a law enforcement agency serving Los Angeles County, California. The LASD is the largest sheriff's department in the United States and the third largest local police agency in the United States, following the New York Police Department, and the Chicago Police Department. The LASD has approximately nineteen thousand employees—9,915 sworn deputies and 9,244 unsworn members.
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Crime & staffing trends
Summary Reporting System counts from the FBI Crime Data Explorer.
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
Staffing
- Full-time sworn
- 9,920
- Part-time sworn
- 125
- Full-time civilian
- 6,216
- Part-time civilian
- 83
- Total FT employees
- 16,136
- Population served
- 2,881,625
- Operating budget
- $3,437,994,000
Source: BJS LEMAS 2020 (ICPSR) · all waves 1987–2020
- Sworn officers (2025)
- 8,715
- Civilians (2025)
- 5,170
Reported annually to the FBI UCR program; full history charted above.
Open data
POP conference activity
Countywide Nuisance Abatement Team
2011 · Submission
Reducing Crime in the Maravilla Public Housing Site Summary
2011 · Submission
Antelope Valley Crime Fighting Initiative
2010 · Submission
Street Prostitution: Viable Solutions to Solving the Problem
2002 · Submission
Core Task Force and Abatement Tracking System
2002 · Submission
59th Place Street Project
1997 · Submission
Newton Area and FALCONs Hooper Block Project
1997 · Submission
1100 Block 59th Place Narcotics Sales
1997 · Submission
Operation Outreach
1996 · Submission
Clean and Safe City Task Force
1996 · Submission
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