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Springfield Police Department

City agency in Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 1996.

ORI: MA0071800
Type: City
County: Hampden
State: Massachusetts (MA)
FBI reporting: Reporting since 1996-05-01
Location: 42.1085, -72.5849

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 154,390.

468Sworn officers

70Civilian staff

3.48Employees per 1,000 people

154,390Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	468	70	154,390	3.48
2024	454	80	155,491	3.43
2023	473	71	154,218	3.53
2022	475	81	155,046	3.59
2021	465	109	154,098	3.72
2020	474	148	153,084	4.06
2019	489	63	154,306	3.58
2018	489	63	155,179	3.56
2017	448	68	154,562	3.34
2016	419	104	154,102	3.39
2015	456	100	154,090	3.61
2014	435	83	153,766	3.37

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

11 people have died during an encounter with Springfield Police Department between 2009 and 2025, according to Mapping Police Violence.

11Deaths recorded

7.12Per 100,000 people policed

2009–2025Period covered

Recorded cause	Deaths
Gunshot	9
Undetermined	1
Vehicle	1

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 Springfield 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 reported	Officers assaulted
Firearm	58
Knife or other cutting instrument	93
Hands, fists or feet	6,393
Other weapon	913

Year	Firearm	Knife	Hands, fists, feet	Other
1995	0	0	23	3
1996	0	1	13	0
2001	2	7	36	26
2002	0	1	3	0
2003	0	0	1	1
2014	4	1	17	9
2015	2	3	64	24
2016	1	3	66	18
2017	0	0	1,140	161
2018	17	25	1,532	174
2019	0	19	1,176	124
2020	2	0	643	113
2021	10	12	313	45
2022	5	20	520	48
2023	2	1	256	29
2024	11	0	277	67
2025	2	0	313	71

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.

$552Original acquisition value

4Line items received

1998–1998Years of transfers

Item	Quantity	Acquisition value	Most recent
Rifle,7.62 Millimeter	4	$552	1998-04-24

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.

Federal oversight

The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division has taken the following action against Springfield Police Department under 34 U.S.C. § 12601. The case type and document titles below are DOJ’s own words, reproduced without interpretation — see all federal oversight matters on /oversight.

DOJ’s case type: Closed

Sub-unit: the Narcotics Bureau within Springfield PD. Not West Springfield, a separate municipality.

Source: Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section.

Also policing Hampden

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 MA0071800. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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