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Bay City Police Department

City agency in Matagorda, Texas, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2017.

ORI
TX1610100
Type
City
County
Matagorda
State
Texas (TX)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2017-02-01
Location
28.9819, -95.9675

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 17,330.

32Sworn officers
19Civilian staff
2.94Employees per 1,000 people
17,330Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025321917,3302.94
2024311717,4052.76
2023362017,2473.25
2022361917,7963.09
2021361917,4413.15
2020352217,5053.26
2019382117,5013.37
2016412217,5953.58
2015372117,3053.35
2014392317,4803.55
2013372117,4293.33
2012351817,9282.96

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 Bay City 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
Firearm3
Knife or other cutting instrument0
Hands, fists or feet72
Other weapon14
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19950021
19960070
19970011
19980021
19990021
20000021
20010010
20030001
20040010
20060040
20070030
20082081
20090010
20100020
20110001
20120011
20130011
20140010
20150020
20160060
20170010
20180040
20190070
20200061
20210010
20220022
20230010
20240001
20251030

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 Matagorda

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 TX1610100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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