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Somerville Police Department

City agencyMA0093900NIBRS since 2005LEMAS 2020

Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Serves ~80,935 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 MA0093900.

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 · 2,878 victims, 3,603 offenders
Victim sex
Male1,420 (49%)
Female1,336 (46%)
Unknown122 (4%)
Victim race
White1,582 (79%)
Black or African American225 (11%)
Asian187 (9%)
American Indian or Alaska Native19 (1%)
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander1 (0%)
Incident location
Residence/Home1,206 (32%)
Highway/Road/Alley/Street/Sidewalk778 (21%)
Department/Discount Store444 (12%)
Parking/Drop Lot/Garage290 (8%)
Specialty Store182 (5%)
Shopping Mall177 (5%)

Top 6 of 35 categories shown.

Victim–offender relationship
Relationship Unknown152 (90%)
Acquaintance4 (2%)
Stranger4 (2%)
Boyfriend/Girlfriend2 (1%)
Otherwise Known2 (1%)
Spouse1 (1%)

Top 6 of 9 categories shown.

Co-occurring offenses
Destruction/Damage/Vandalism of Property75 (28%)
Burglary/Breaking & Entering51 (19%)
Simple Assault31 (12%)
False Pretenses/Swindle/Confidence Game19 (7%)
Aggravated Assault18 (7%)
Motor Vehicle Theft16 (6%)

Top 6 of 14 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
121
Part-time sworn
0
Full-time civilian
33
Part-time civilian
1
Total FT employees
154
Population served
80,935
Operating budget
$15,523,252
Body-worn cameras: noCommunity policing plan: no

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

Earlier LEMAS surveys
WaveFT swornFT civilianBudget
201312525$14,382,569
200711628$11,300,000
200312824$10,500,000
200014022$10,500,000
199914523
199716322
199312410
19901350

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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