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Watertown Police Department

City agencyMA0094800NIBRS since 2003LEMAS 2013

Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Serves ~32,863 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 MA0094800.

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 · 880 victims, 1,672 offenders
Victim sex
Male472 (54%)
Female407 (46%)
Unknown1 (0%)
Victim race
White723 (82%)
Asian88 (10%)
Black or African American69 (8%)
Incident location
Department/Discount Store638 (36%)
Residence/Home549 (31%)
Commercial/Office Building103 (6%)
Highway/Road/Alley/Street/Sidewalk81 (5%)
Parking/Drop Lot/Garage63 (4%)
Specialty Store55 (3%)

Top 6 of 25 categories shown.

Victim–offender relationship
Stranger96 (45%)
Relationship Unknown91 (43%)
Acquaintance9 (4%)
Otherwise Known6 (3%)
Parent3 (1%)
Neighbor2 (1%)

Top 6 of 11 categories shown.

Co-occurring offenses
False Pretenses/Swindle/Confidence Game23 (19%)
Impersonation19 (16%)
Destruction/Damage/Vandalism of Property17 (14%)
Stolen Property Offenses16 (13%)
Counterfeiting/Forgery14 (12%)
Drug/Narcotic Violations9 (7%)

Top 6 of 13 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 2013 survey
Full-time sworn
65
Part-time sworn
0
Full-time civilian
4
Part-time civilian
4
Population served
32,863
Operating budget
$7,737,663
Body-worn cameras: no

Source: BJS LEMAS 2013 (ICPSR) · all waves 1987–2020

Earlier LEMAS surveys
WaveFT swornFT civilianBudget
20076613$6,600,672
20037112$5,928,648

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.

Agencies like this one

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

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