Open Policing Data Hub

FBI agency record

Miami Police Department

City agencyFL0130600NIBRS since 2022LEMAS 2020Founded 1896

Miami-Dade County, Florida

Serves ~498,792 residents · UCR reported

Crime trendsNIBRSLEMASPoliciesOpen dataPOP projects

The Miami Police Department (MPD), also known as the City of Miami Police Department, is a full-service municipal law enforcement agency serving the city of Miami, Florida, United States. MPD is the largest municipal police department in Florida. MPD officers are distinguishable from their Miami-Dade Police Department counterparts by their blue uniforms and blue-and-white patrol vehicles.

From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0

See something wrong (website, links, data)? Report a data issue

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

NIBRS victims by offense · Jan 2021Dec 2024

Incident-based victim counts reported through NIBRS, from the FBI Crime Data Explorer.

Larceny-theft: victim & offender age · 20,131 victims, 27,950 offenders
Victim sex
Male11,781 (59%)
Female8,339 (41%)
Unknown11 (0%)
Victim race
White15,305 (77%)
Black or African American4,334 (22%)
Asian221 (1%)
American Indian or Alaska Native56 (0%)
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander20 (0%)
Incident location
Residence/Home5,871 (21%)
Highway/Road/Alley/Street/Sidewalk5,826 (21%)
Parking/Drop Lot/Garage4,942 (18%)
Department/Discount Store1,818 (7%)
Convenience Store1,787 (6%)
Grocery/Supermarket861 (3%)

Top 6 of 41 categories shown.

Victim–offender relationship
Stranger106 (27%)
Boyfriend/Girlfriend86 (22%)
Relationship Unknown77 (20%)
Acquaintance37 (9%)
Otherwise Known26 (7%)
Common-Law Spouse24 (6%)

Top 6 of 17 categories shown.

Co-occurring offenses
Destruction/Damage/Vandalism of Property1,035 (41%)
Simple Assault282 (11%)
False Pretenses/Swindle/Confidence Game224 (9%)
Drug/Narcotic Violations163 (6%)
Counterfeiting/Forgery140 (6%)
Drug Equipment Violations106 (4%)

Top 6 of 22 categories shown.

Open data

No open-data portal has been found for this agency. Discovery sweeps Socrata, ArcGIS, and CKAN portals on a schedule, so this can change. Know of a portal or dataset this agency publishes? Tell us.

Staffing

LEMAS 2020 survey
Full-time sworn
1,314
Part-time sworn
0
Full-time civilian
391
Part-time civilian
28
Total FT employees
1,705
Population served
471,525
Operating budget
$266,173,000
Body-worn cameras: yesCommunity policing plan: no

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

Earlier LEMAS surveys
WaveFT swornFT civilianBudget
20131,035306$156,963,000
20071,054716$18,250,949
20031,038370$94,300,468
20001,110377$86,595,193
19991,117355
19971,007313
19931,067279
19901,110326
19871,024362

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

FBI police employment
Sworn officers (2025)
1,362
Civilians (2025)
339

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

Open data

No catalogued open data portals for this agency yet, but its official website may publish records and transparency reports.

POP conference activity

Agencies like this one

St. Petersburg Police Department

FL · serves ~269,098

Citymatch 99%
Compare trends
Escambia County Sheriff's Office

FL · serves ~266,616

Countymatch 99%
Compare trends
Raleigh Police Department

NC · serves ~508,719

Citymatch 98%
Compare trends
Miami-Dade County Police Department

FL · serves ~1,278,492

Countymatch 98%
Compare trends
Prince William County Police Department

VA · serves ~466,085

Countymatch 97%
Compare trends

Compared by size, crime mix, rates, and staffing within the same agency class · precomputed from FBI trend and NIBRS data. Methodology: agency-metrics/metrics-spec.md

Assessing a response? These agencies double as informal comparison groups: if your trend falls while comparable agencies hold steady, the case that your response worked is much stronger. See the project report template.