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Charleston Police Department

City agencyWV0200200NIBRS since 1998LEMAS 2020

Kanawha County, West Virginia

Serves ~45,879 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 WV0200200.

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 · 813 victims, 756 offenders
Victim sex
Male434 (53%)
Female364 (45%)
Unknown15 (2%)
Victim race
White454 (59%)
Black or African American315 (41%)
Asian3 (0%)
Weapons involved
Handgun173 (25%)
Knife/Cutting Instrument127 (19%)
Firearm114 (17%)
Personal Weapons99 (15%)
Blunt Object42 (6%)
None32 (5%)

Top 6 of 16 categories shown.

Incident location
Residence/Home372 (46%)
Highway/Road/Alley/Street/Sidewalk244 (30%)
Parking/Drop Lot/Garage71 (9%)
Other/Unknown22 (3%)
Bar/Nightclub19 (2%)
Hotel/Motel/Etc.16 (2%)

Top 6 of 21 categories shown.

Victim–offender relationship
Acquaintance206 (26%)
Stranger168 (21%)
Boyfriend/Girlfriend119 (15%)
Relationship Unknown102 (13%)
Otherwise Known58 (7%)
Neighbor45 (6%)

Top 6 of 19 categories shown.

Co-occurring offenses
Simple Assault35 (27%)
Weapon Law Violations21 (16%)
Destruction/Damage/Vandalism of Property18 (14%)
Burglary/Breaking & Entering15 (11%)
Drug/Narcotic Violations13 (10%)
All Other Larceny10 (8%)

Top 6 of 17 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
160
Part-time sworn
0
Full-time civilian
22
Part-time civilian
8
Total FT employees
182
Population served
45,879
Operating budget
$21,362,961
Body-worn cameras: yesCommunity policing plan: no

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

Earlier LEMAS surveys
WaveFT swornFT civilianBudget
201316224$14,658,352
200718223$12,418,135
200316128$12,028,309
200018038$7,179,476
199918350
199717530
199315420
199015822
198716335

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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