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San Francisco Police Department

City agencyCA0380100Not reporting NIBRSLEMAS 2020Founded 1849

San Francisco County, California

Serves ~815,330 residents · UCR reported

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The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) is the municipal law enforcement agency of the City and County of San Francisco, as well as San Francisco International Airport in San Mateo County. In 2000, the SFPD was the 11th largest police department in the United States.

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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
2,234
Part-time sworn
0
Full-time civilian
631
Part-time civilian
115
Total FT employees
2,865
Population served
866,606
Operating budget
$667,891,102
Body-worn cameras: yesCommunity policing plan: yes

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

Earlier LEMAS surveys
WaveFT swornFT civilianBudget
20132,158426$492,000,000
20072,303322$406,970,908
20032,216377$303,283,809
20002,227293$255,706,971
19992,186504
19972,006108

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

FBI police employment
Sworn officers (2025)
1,881
Civilians (2025)
927

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

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