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Watertown Police Department

City agencySD0140100NIBRS since 1991LEMAS 2007

Codington County, South Dakota

Serves ~20,568 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 SD0140100.

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 · 771 victims, 1,294 offenders
Victim sex
Male425 (55%)
Female344 (45%)
Unknown2 (0%)
Victim race
White661 (91%)
American Indian or Alaska Native48 (7%)
Black or African American9 (1%)
Asian7 (1%)
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander1 (0%)
Incident location
Residence/Home444 (36%)
Department/Discount Store206 (17%)
Highway/Road/Alley/Street/Sidewalk80 (6%)
Other/Unknown62 (5%)
Specialty Store62 (5%)
Grocery/Supermarket61 (5%)

Top 6 of 33 categories shown.

Victim–offender relationship
Stranger196 (47%)
Acquaintance99 (24%)
Relationship Unknown50 (12%)
Otherwise Known12 (3%)
Friend9 (2%)
Parent8 (2%)

Top 6 of 19 categories shown.

Co-occurring offenses
Destruction/Damage/Vandalism of Property62 (21%)
Burglary/Breaking & Entering60 (20%)
Impersonation41 (14%)
Motor Vehicle Theft25 (8%)
Drug/Narcotic Violations20 (7%)
Credit Card/Automated Teller Machine Fraud18 (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 2007 survey
Full-time sworn
35
Part-time sworn
0
Full-time civilian
16
Part-time civilian
1
Total FT employees
51
Population served
20,568
Operating budget
$2,000,000

Source: BJS LEMAS 2007 (ICPSR) · all waves 1987–2020

Earlier LEMAS surveys
WaveFT swornFT civilianBudget
1993255
1990254

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

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