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Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office

County agencyCA0190000Not reporting NIBRSLEMAS 2020Founded 1850

Los Angeles County, California

Serves ~945,223 residents · UCR reported

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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

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

Staffing

LEMAS 2020 survey
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
Body-worn cameras: yesCommunity policing plan: no

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

Earlier LEMAS surveys
WaveFT swornFT civilianBudget
20139,2667,692$2,806,127,000
20077,6148,600$2,414,490,000
20038,6224,756$1,663,900,000
20008,4385,602$1,388,460,000
19998,1075,458
19978,0214,524
19937,6293,656
19907,6403,168

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

FBI police employment
Sworn officers (2025)
8,715
Civilians (2025)
5,170

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

Open data

Los Angeles County open data

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