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Lake Forest Police Department

City agency in Orange, California, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2021.

ORI
CA030430X
Type
City
County
Orange
State
California (CA)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2021-01-01

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2015, covering a population of 80,798.

1Sworn officers
0Civilian staff
0.01Employees per 1,000 people
80,798Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
20151080,7980.01
20141079,7480.01
20111078,1720.01
19980075,5680.00

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.

Assaults on officers

Officers of Lake Forest Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 2001 and 2025. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm5
Knife or other cutting instrument5
Hands, fists or feet163
Other weapon26
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
20010020
20030060
20040042
20050171
20060131
20070032
20080010
20090061
20100060
20110081
20120070
20130061
20140040
20151080
20160181
201700121
20180050
20190031
20200002
20213095
20220175
202301170
202410171
202500141

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.

Also policing Orange

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 CA030430X. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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