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Chesterton Police Department

City agencyIN0640100NIBRS since 2021

Porter County, Indiana

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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 IN0640100.

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 · 95 victims, 138 offenders
Victim sex
Female56 (59%)
Male38 (40%)
Unknown1 (1%)
Victim race
White80 (94%)
Asian2 (2%)
Black or African American2 (2%)
American Indian or Alaska Native1 (1%)
Incident location
Residence/Home58 (42%)
Parking/Drop Lot/Garage15 (11%)
Drug Store/Doctor's Office/Hospital14 (10%)
Specialty Store9 (7%)
Service/Gas Station7 (5%)
Grocery/Supermarket5 (4%)

Top 6 of 21 categories shown.

Victim–offender relationship
Ex-Relationship (Ex-Boyfriend/Girlfriend)2 (50%)
Parent1 (25%)
Boyfriend/Girlfriend1 (25%)
Co-occurring offenses
Intimidation2 (50%)
Credit Card/Automated Teller Machine Fraud1 (25%)
Wire Fraud1 (25%)

Open data

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Last checked 2026-07-03

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Chesterton Police Department Crime MapIncidents

Property CrimeIncidents

Last checked 2026-07-03

Staffing

LEMAS survey

This agency was not matched in any local LEMAS extract (each survey wave samples ~3,000–3,500 of the ~19,000 US agencies). See the BJS LEMAS collection for methodology, or browse every LEMAS wave (1987–2020) at NACJD.

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.

Agencies like this one

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