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Lakewood Police Department

City agency in Pierce, Washington. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2007.

ORI
WA0272300
Type
City
County
Pierce
State
Washington
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2007-01-01
Location
47.1725, -122.5071

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 62,485.

94Sworn officers
13Civilian staff
1.71Employees per 1,000 people
62,485Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025941362,4851.71
20241041561,8731.92
2023951762,0591.80
2022961563,0441.76
2021941561,3251.78
2020951361,4321.76
2019971460,9161.82
20181011760,6941.94
2017991561,0801.87
2016961660,1531.86
2015981559,9581.88
2014991759,3131.96

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.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

5 people have died during an encounter with Lakewood Police Department between 2013 and 2021, according to Mapping Police Violence.

5Deaths recorded
8.00Per 100,000 people policed
20132021Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot5

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.

Also policing Pierce

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 WA0272300. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.