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Homewood Police Department

City agency in Jefferson, Alabama, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2012.

ORI
AL0011000
Type
City
County
Jefferson
State
Alabama (AL)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2012-01-01
Location
33.4796, -86.791

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 28,051.

82Sworn officers
29Civilian staff
3.96Employees per 1,000 people
28,051Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025822928,0513.96
2024822527,8843.84
2023893028,1074.23
2022792725,7884.11
2021772725,1794.13
2020813725,4074.64
2019813625,4284.60
2018823925,5234.74
2015703225,9683.93
2014743125,9004.05
2013733225,2994.15
2012772825,2844.15

Officer and civilian counts are full-time employees as filed by the agency in its annual return. A dash means the agency did not report that figure for that year — it does not mean zero.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

12 people have died during an encounter with Homewood Police Department between 2010 and 2025, according to Mapping Police Violence.

12Deaths recorded
42.78Per 100,000 people policed
2010–2025Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot10
Tasered1
Vehicle1

What this figure is and is not. It counts deaths recorded as occurring during an encounter with this agency. It is not a finding of wrongdoing, and a death being recorded here says nothing about whether it was lawful. Many involve armed confrontations; some involve none. Police Census publishes counts only and does not name the people who died.

These records are compiled from news reports and public records by Mapping Police Violence, an independent research organisation — they are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. Used with permission.

Assaults on officers

Officers of Homewood Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1996 and 2024. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm0
Knife or other cutting instrument2
Hands, fists or feet15
Other weapon7
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19960021
19980020
20000011
20010020
20020111
20030131
20040021
20050010
20100011
20240001

Why there is no single total here. The FBI publishes two breakdowns of the same assaults — by weapon, and by how the officer was deployed — and nationally they do not agree: the assignment columns sum to 1,869,337 and the weapon columns to 1,744,852, and the two match on only 84% of rows. Police Census publishes the weapon breakdown as the FBI states it rather than picking one basis and calling it ‘the total’. The file’s ‘cleared’ column is not shown either: it sums higher than the assaults themselves, so it is not a subset of what is above and we have not established what it counts.

This comes from the FBI’s Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted programme. Despite the name, the file carries no officers-killed data at all — those columns are empty for every agency and every year, so this page reports assaults only and says nothing about officers killed.

LEOKA identifies agencies by name, not by the ORI used elsewhere on this site. A row was attached only where exactly one agency in that state reduces to the same base name; 78.7% of rows matched nationwide. An agency with nothing here may have reported no assaults, or may be one of the names that did not match — Police Census does not guess which.

Military surplus received

Transferred under the Department of Defense 1033 programme, which passes surplus military equipment to law enforcement agencies at no cost. Values are the Department’s original acquisition cost, not what the equipment is worth today.

$161,249Original acquisition value
120Line items received
1999–2013Years of transfers
ItemQuantityAcquisition valueMost recent
Illuminator,Infrared97$90,1422013-01-15
Truck,Armored1$65,0702000-04-19
Rifle,5.56 Millimeter5$2,4952002-08-12
Rifle,7.62 Millimeter14$1,9322000-11-29
Simulator,Muzzle Flash,Small Arms23$9312013-05-30
Sight,Reflex12$6792012-08-21

Source: Defense Logistics Agency, Law Enforcement Support Office, public data as at 30 June 2026. Items are grouped by description; the date shown is the most recent shipment of that item.

Also policing Jefferson

Jurisdictions overlap. These agencies are also recorded against the same county, so a single address may be covered by more than one of them.

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record AL0011000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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