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Parachute Police Department

City agency in Garfield, Colorado, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 1997.

ORI
CO0230200
Type
City
County
Garfield
State
Colorado (CO)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 1997-01-01
Location
39.5994, -107.9098

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2024, covering a population of 1,355.

6Sworn officers
1Civilian staff
5.17Employees per 1,000 people
1,355Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2024611,3555.17
2023601,3544.43
2022511,3684.39
2021511,1185.37
2020411,1214.46
2019511,1255.33
2018511,1205.36
2017411,1194.47
2016411,1104.50
2015411,1034.53
2014511,1005.45
2013501,1004.55

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 Parachute Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1995 and 2021. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm0
Knife or other cutting instrument2
Hands, fists or feet18
Other weapon2
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19950010
19990100
20000010
20010010
20020010
20050020
20120010
20130011
20150020
20160010
20170010
20180020
20190110
20200030
20210001

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 Garfield

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 CO0230200. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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