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Strongsville Police Department

City agency in Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2021.

ORI
OH0185100
Type
City
County
Cuyahoga
State
Ohio (OH)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2021-01-01
Location
41.3145, -81.8325

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 45,589.

73Sworn officers
42Civilian staff
2.52Employees per 1,000 people
45,589Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025734245,5892.52
2020681944,6231.95
2018741744,8192.03
2017711444,7581.90
2016711444,6261.90
2015714244,6382.53
2013683744,5832.36
2012692844,3972.18
2011732744,7832.23
2010772944,7502.37
2009772042,4782.28
2008772042,7492.27

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

2 people have died during an encounter with Strongsville Police Department between 2017 and 2017, according to Mapping Police Violence.

2Deaths recorded
4.39Per 100,000 people policed
2017–2017Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot2

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 Strongsville Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1998 and 2024. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm1
Knife or other cutting instrument0
Hands, fists or feet13
Other weapon5
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19980010
20000010
20010031
20050020
20090011
20110010
20210001
20220001
20231001
20240040

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.

$1,380Original acquisition value
10Line items received
1995–1995Years of transfers
ItemQuantityAcquisition valueMost recent
Rifle,7.62 Millimeter10$1,3801995-02-02

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.

Also policing Cuyahoga

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 OH0185100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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