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Canton Police Department

City agencyMA0110500NIBRS since 1996LEMAS 2020

Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Serves ~24,029 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 MA0110500.

NIBRS incident detail

NIBRS victims by offense · Jan 2021Dec 2024

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

Aggravated Assault: victim & offender age · 314 victims, 285 offenders
Victim sex
Female176 (56%)
Male138 (44%)
Victim race
White178 (61%)
Black or African American110 (38%)
Asian4 (1%)
Weapons involved
Personal Weapons137 (49%)
None55 (20%)
Other43 (15%)
Blunt Object15 (5%)
Knife/Cutting Instrument8 (3%)
Unknown8 (3%)

Top 6 of 10 categories shown.

Incident location
Residence/Home160 (51%)
Highway/Road/Alley/Street/Sidewalk37 (12%)
Restaurant21 (7%)
Parking/Drop Lot/Garage13 (4%)
School-Elementary/Secondary11 (4%)
Service/Gas Station10 (3%)

Top 6 of 25 categories shown.

Victim–offender relationship
Stranger47 (16%)
Boyfriend/Girlfriend42 (14%)
Otherwise Known42 (14%)
Acquaintance26 (9%)
Spouse23 (8%)
Ex-Relationship (Ex-Boyfriend/Girlfriend)18 (6%)

Top 6 of 20 categories shown.

Co-occurring offenses
Destruction/Damage/Vandalism of Property25 (46%)
Simple Assault9 (17%)
Weapon Law Violations7 (13%)
Drug/Narcotic Violations3 (6%)
All Other Larceny2 (4%)
False Pretenses/Swindle/Confidence Game1 (2%)

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 2020 survey
Full-time sworn
46
Part-time sworn
1
Full-time civilian
0
Part-time civilian
1
Total FT employees
46
Population served
24,029
Operating budget
$4,500,000
Body-worn cameras: yesCommunity policing plan: no

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

Earlier LEMAS surveys
WaveFT swornFT civilianBudget
2003421$2,934,507
1990402

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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