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Elkhart Police Department

City agencyIN0200100NIBRS since 2020LEMAS 2020

Elkhart County, Indiana

Serves ~52,172 residents · LEMAS survey

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Crime & staffing trends

No snapshot trend data is stored for this agency yet. Explore its full crime and employment history directly on the FBI Crime Data Explorer, which covers UCR summary data, NIBRS incidents, and police employment for ORI IN0200100.

NIBRS incident detail

NIBRS victims by offense · Jan 2021Dec 2024

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

Arson: victim & offender age · 52 victims, 53 offenders
Victim sex
Female29 (56%)
Male23 (44%)
Victim race
White40 (77%)
Black or African American12 (23%)
Incident location
Residence/Home39 (58%)
Highway/Road/Alley/Street/Sidewalk10 (15%)
Parking/Drop Lot/Garage5 (7%)
Other/Unknown3 (4%)
Park/Playground2 (3%)
Service/Gas Station2 (3%)

Top 6 of 12 categories shown.

Victim–offender relationship
Boyfriend/Girlfriend1 (50%)
Acquaintance1 (50%)
Co-occurring offenses
Simple Assault2 (20%)
Aggravated Assault2 (20%)
Destruction/Damage/Vandalism of Property2 (20%)
Burglary/Breaking & Entering2 (20%)
Kidnapping/Abduction1 (10%)
Weapon Law Violations1 (10%)

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
139
Part-time sworn
0
Full-time civilian
24
Part-time civilian
19
Total FT employees
163
Population served
52,172
Body-worn cameras: yesCommunity policing plan: yes

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

Earlier LEMAS surveys
WaveFT swornFT civilianBudget
201311923$8,726,440
200711425$7,652,174
200311824$8,400,000
200010431$7,445,550
199910830
199710330
19939926
19879727

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

FBI police employment

Employment counts for this agency are available through the FBI Crime Data Explorer.

Open data

No open data sources are catalogued for this agency yet. FBI reported-crime data is still available via the Crime Data Explorer link above.

POP conference activity

No POP conference submissions matched to this agency in our records.

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