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Venice Police Department

City agency in Sarasota, Florida, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2023.

ORI
FL0580200
Type
City
County
Sarasota
State
Florida (FL)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2023-01-01
Location
27.1844, -82.3658

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2020, covering a population of 24,366.

50Sworn officers
18Civilian staff
2.79Employees per 1,000 people
24,366Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2020501824,3662.79
2019501323,7262.66
2017451122,7622.46
2016441322,5142.53
201544821,9802.37
201444821,3782.43
2013431221,1512.60
2012451521,1822.83
2011451721,0312.95
2010501620,7483.18
2009521821,2363.30
2008481921,0863.18

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 Venice Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1998 and 2020. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm1
Knife or other cutting instrument1
Hands, fists or feet37
Other weapon12
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19980003
19990120
20000011
20010010
20020031
20030022
20040011
20050010
20060020
20070022
20081010
20090031
20100021
20110010
20120040
20130010
20140010
20150020
20160020
20170010
20180010
20190020
20200010

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 Sarasota

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 FL0580200. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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