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Socorro Police Department

City agency in Socorro, New Mexico, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2024.

ORI
NM0280100
Type
City
County
Socorro
State
New Mexico (NM)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2024-01-01
Location
33.9916, -106.939

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 8,268.

15Sworn officers
9Civilian staff
2.90Employees per 1,000 people
8,268Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
20251598,2682.90
20241428,2581.94
20221318,2811.69
20211138,2481.70
20181428,3631.91
20171698,5472.93
20151728,6842.19
20141728,8792.14
20121789,0692.76
20112099,1523.17
20102199,0513.31
20092099,0043.22

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 Socorro 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 feet84
Other weapon21
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19950060
19960020
19970010
19980010
19990043
20010031
20020081
20030031
20040062
20050150
20060052
20070072
20080031
20090070
20100041
20110030
20120030
20130020
20160011
20180031
20190002
20210030
20220020
20230021
20240001
20250001

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 Socorro

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 NM0280100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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