Open Policing Data Hub

FBI agency record

Akron Police Department

City agencyOH0770100NIBRS since 1998LEMAS 2020

Summit County, Ohio

Serves ~195,994 residents · LEMAS survey

Crime trendsNIBRSLEMASPoliciesOpen dataPOP projects

Akron Police Department is the primary municipal law enforcement agency for the city of Akron, Ohio, United States with 451 employees. The current Police Chief is Brian Harding.

From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0

See something wrong (website, links, data)? Report a data issue

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 OH0770100.

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 · 13,983 victims, 18,489 offenders
Victim sex
Female7,539 (54%)
Male6,432 (46%)
Unknown12 (0%)
Victim race
White7,276 (54%)
Black or African American5,895 (44%)
Asian205 (2%)
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander28 (0%)
American Indian or Alaska Native9 (0%)
Incident location
Residence/Home8,195 (44%)
Other/Unknown2,519 (13%)
Parking/Drop Lot/Garage2,127 (11%)
Convenience Store1,171 (6%)
Highway/Road/Alley/Street/Sidewalk837 (4%)
Grocery/Supermarket711 (4%)

Top 6 of 41 categories shown.

Victim–offender relationship
Relationship Unknown1,602 (38%)
Acquaintance609 (14%)
Boyfriend/Girlfriend493 (12%)
Otherwise Known485 (12%)
Stranger221 (5%)
Friend177 (4%)

Top 6 of 25 categories shown.

Co-occurring offenses
Destruction/Damage/Vandalism of Property1,999 (42%)
Burglary/Breaking & Entering714 (15%)
Credit Card/Automated Teller Machine Fraud592 (13%)
Simple Assault256 (5%)
Motor Vehicle Theft252 (5%)
Intimidation247 (5%)

Top 6 of 25 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
452
Part-time sworn
0
Full-time civilian
90
Part-time civilian
0
Total FT employees
542
Population served
195,994
Operating budget
$49,380,000
Body-worn cameras: yesCommunity policing plan: yes

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

Earlier LEMAS surveys
WaveFT swornFT civilianBudget
201341241$47,734,700
200747444$44,000,000
200348643$42,078,623
200048744$8,744,720
199948747
199750045
199347174
199043351
198745950

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 catalogued open data portals for this agency yet, but its official website may publish records and transparency reports.

POP conference activity

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

Agencies like this one

Greenville County Sheriff's Office

SC · serves ~366,558

Countymatch 99%
Compare trends
Knoxville Police Department

TN · serves ~200,645

Citymatch 98%
Compare trends
Wichita Police Department

KS · serves ~401,730

Citymatch 98%
Compare trends
Mesa Police Department

AZ · serves ~519,990

Citymatch 98%
Compare trends
Huntsville Police Department

AL · serves ~234,043

Citymatch 98%
Compare trends

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

Assessing a response? These agencies double as informal comparison groups: if your trend falls while comparable agencies hold steady, the case that your response worked is much stronger. See the project report template.