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San Bernardino Police Department

City agency in San Bernardino, California, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2025.

ORI
CA0361000
Type
City
County
San Bernardino
State
California (CA)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2025-06-01
Location
34.8572, -116.1812

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 225,448.

290Sworn officers
142Civilian staff
1.92Employees per 1,000 people
225,448Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025290142225,4481.92
2024285133224,2831.86
2023278142219,4831.91
2022248113222,6231.62
2021245100218,2051.58
202023995216,3651.54
2019244124216,7151.70
2018238156217,9861.81
2017236142217,2591.74
2016215145217,3031.66
2015214180216,4771.82
2014225133214,5881.67

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

101 people have died during an encounter with San Bernardino Police Department between 2000 and 2026, according to Mapping Police Violence.

101Deaths recorded
44.80Per 100,000 people policed
2000–2026Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot82
Vehicle11
Tasered3
Gunshot, Taser2
Taser, Gunshot1
Asphyxiated/Restrained1
Beaten/Bludgeoned with instrument1

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 San Bernardino Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1995 and 2025. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm175
Knife or other cutting instrument95
Hands, fists or feet1,998
Other weapon554
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
1995446817
1996544611
1997716322
1998266417
1999864818
2000225912
200142489
2002405218
2003735914
2004304212
2005423110
200600243
2007625817
2008327311
2009706015
2010316615
2011616311
201243468
201331277
2014413711
2015747216
2016846711
2017817622
2018958817
2019579835
2020111010451
202212511745
2023934512
20241178929
20259820858

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.

$966Original acquisition value
7Line items received
2000–2000Years of transfers
ItemQuantityAcquisition valueMost recent
Rifle,7.62 Millimeter7$9662000-04-04

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 San Bernardino

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 CA0361000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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