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Ridgewood Police Department

City agency in Bergen, New Jersey, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2021.

ORI
NJ0025100
Type
City
County
Bergen
State
New Jersey (NJ)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2021-01-01
Location
40.9822, -74.1126

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 26,873.

49Sworn officers
11Civilian staff
2.23Employees per 1,000 people
26,873Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025491126,8732.23
202444526,8641.82
202344626,3921.89
202248526,4852.00
202145425,9591.89
202045525,0362.00
201947525,1922.06
201847525,4292.04
201745325,7291.87
201643325,6171.80
201542325,5811.76
201442325,4821.77

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 Ridgewood 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
Firearm0
Knife or other cutting instrument1
Hands, fists or feet74
Other weapon3
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19950041
19960050
19970010
19980031
19990020
20000050
20010020
20030040
20040040
20050020
20060010
20070030
20080020
20090050
20100010
20110010
20120030
20130071
20140110
20150020
20160040
20180040
20200010
20210010
20220020
20230020
20240010
20250010

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 Bergen

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 NJ0025100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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