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Hazleton Police Department

City agency in Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States. This agency has never filed a crime return with the FBI.

ORI
PA0400700
Type
City
County
Luzerne
State
Pennsylvania (PA)
FBI reporting
Never reported
Location
41.1728, -75.976

Nothing is published about crime in this jurisdiction. Hazleton Police Department has no National Incident-Based Reporting System start date on record, which means no crime counts, clearance rates or arrest figures for this agency reach the national statistics. Reporting is voluntary in the United States.

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 30,465.

40Sworn officers
1Civilian staff
1.35Employees per 1,000 people
30,465Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
202540130,4651.35
202447130,0791.60
202349130,0351.66
202244130,0831.50
202143124,7501.78
202039224,7261.66
201840424,6371.79
201738424,5491.71
201637424,7251.66
201538424,8341.69
201439325,0231.68
201338325,1911.63

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

3 people have died during an encounter with Hazleton Police Department between 2006 and 2018, according to the two datasets named below.

3Deaths recorded
9.85Per 100,000 people policed
2006–2018Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot3

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.

Source: these records come from Fatal Encounters (2) and Mapping Police Violence (1). Where both recorded the same death it is counted once. They are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. See Deaths for how the two are combined. Mapping Police Violence data is displayed with attribution to its compiler; the written scope of this site’s right to display it is being confirmed (note dated 11 October 2026).

Assaults on officers

Officers of Hazleton Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1995 and 2020. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm0
Knife or other cutting instrument2
Hands, fists or feet49
Other weapon16
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19950020
19960020
19970112
19980001
19990050
20000040
20010011
20020120
20030061
20040021
20050021
20080020
20090010
20110031
20120002
20130001
20140010
20150010
20160022
20170021
20180041
20190051
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 Luzerne

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 PA0400700. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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