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District of Columbia law enforcement agencies: 3 are on record with the FBI. 2 of them (67%) report crime data; 1 have never filed a return.

3Agencies

2Reporting to the FBI

1Never reported

67%Reporting rate

Federal funding

$79.2m awarded to recipients in District of Columbia under the main federal policing programmes since October 2019. Recipients are usually cities rather than police departments, so this is reported for the state as a whole — why there is no per-agency figure.

Programme	Awarded	Awards
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant	$51.9m	30
COPS Hiring Program	$22.7m	36
DNA Backlog Reduction	$4.6m	9

FBI reporting participation

This is a state-level figure published by the FBI, not a per-agency one — it counts how many agencies across District of Columbia submitted crime data to the FBI in a given year. There is no per-agency participation file in the FBI’s bulk data, so this cannot be attributed to any single agency.

3Agencies on file, 2025

2Submitted data (67.0%)

2NIBRS participants (100.0%)

693,645Population covered by NIBRS submitters

Year	Total agencies	Submitted data	NIBRS	Population covered
2025	3	2 (67.0%)	2 (100.0%)	693,645
2024	3	2 (67.0%)	2 (100.0%)	702,250
2023	3	2 (67.0%)	2 (100.0%)	678,972
2022	3	2 (67.0%)	2 (100.0%)	671,803
2021	3	2 (67.0%)	2 (100.0%)	670,050
2020	3	3 (100.0%)	1 (33.0%)	0
2019	3	3 (100.0%)	1 (33.0%)	0
2018	3	3 (100.0%)	1 (33.0%)	0
2017	3	3 (100.0%)	1 (33.0%)	0
2016	3	3 (100.0%)	1 (33.0%)	0
2015	3	3 (100.0%)	1 (33.0%)	0
2014	3	3 (100.0%)	1 (33.0%)	0
2013	2	2 (100.0%)	1 (50.0%)	0
2012	2	2 (100.0%)	1 (50.0%)	0
2011	2	2 (100.0%)	1 (50.0%)	0
2010	2	2 (100.0%)	1 (50.0%)	0
2009	2	2 (100.0%)	1 (50.0%)	0
2008	2	2 (100.0%)	1 (50.0%)	0
2007	2	2 (100.0%)	1 (50.0%)	0
2006	2	2 (100.0%)	1 (50.0%)	0
2005	2	2 (100.0%)	1 (50.0%)	0
2004	2	2 (100.0%)	1 (50.0%)	0
2003	2	2 (100.0%)	1 (50.0%)	0
2002	2	2 (100.0%)	1 (50.0%)	0
2001	2	2 (100.0%)	1 (50.0%)	0
2000	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1999	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1998	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1997	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1996	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1995	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1994	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1993	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1992	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1991	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1990	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1989	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1988	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1987	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1986	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1985	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1984	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1983	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1982	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1981	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1980	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1979	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1978	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1977	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1976	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1975	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1974	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1973	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1972	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1971	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1970	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1969	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1968	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1967	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1966	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1965	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1964	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1963	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1962	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1961	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1960	1	1 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0

Workforce over time

Sworn officers reported to the FBI each year by agencies in District of Columbia, with the number of agencies that filed a return that year shown alongside. That reporting base changes year to year, so a rising officer count here can simply mean more agencies reported, not that more officers were hired. The rate is per 1,000 people in the population those reporting agencies themselves cover, not a Census population for the whole state.

Year	Officers	Population covered	Per 1,000	Reporting agencies
1960	2,540	763,956	3.32	1
1961	2,809	763,956	3.68	1
1962	2,845	784,000	3.63	1
1963	2,910	798,000	3.65	1
1964	2,884	808,000	3.57	1
1965	2,911	803,000	3.63	1
1967	2,726	809,000	3.37	1
1968	3,220	809,000	3.98	1
1969	3,868	798,000	4.85	1
1970	5,055	756,510	6.68	1
1971	4,947	741,000	6.68	1
1972	4,951	748,000	6.62	1
1973	4,937	746,000	6.62	1
1974	4,597	723,000	6.36	1
1975	4,583	716,000	6.40	1
1976	4,340	702,000	6.18	1
1977	4,166	690,000	6.04	1
1978	4,078	674,000	6.05	1
1979	4,034	656,000	6.15	1
1980	3,652	635,233	5.75	1
1981	3,594	636,000	5.65	1
1982	3,861	631,000	6.12	1
1983	3,861	623,000	6.20	1
1984	3,879	623,000	6.23	1
1985	3,837	626,000	6.13	1
1986	3,877	626,000	6.19	1
1987	3,909	622,000	6.28	1
1988	3,920	620,000	6.32	1
1989	3,974	604,000	6.58	1
1990	4,740	606,900	7.81	1
1991	4,502	598,000	7.53	1
1992	4,424	589,000	7.51	1
1993	4,372	578,000	7.56	1
1994	4,106	570,000	7.20	1
1995	3,671	554,000	6.63	1
1996	3,611	543,000	6.65	1
1997	3,606	529,000	6.82	1
1998	3,511	523,000	6.71	1
1999	3,488	519,000	6.72	1
2000	3,628	572,059	6.34	1
2001	3,611	571,822	6.31	1
2002	3,655	570,898	6.40	1
2003	3,515	563,384	6.24	1
2004	3,787	553,523	6.84	1
2005	3,757	550,521	6.82	1
2006	3,799	581,530	6.53	1
2007	3,907	588,292	6.64	1
2008	4,030	591,833	6.81	1
2009	4,052	599,657	6.76	1
2010	3,945	601,723	6.56	1
2011	3,818	617,996	6.18	1
2012	3,867	632,323	6.12	1
2013	3,976	646,449	6.15	1
2014	3,935	658,893	5.97	1
2015	3,826	672,228	5.69	1
2016	3,753	681,170	5.51	1
2017	3,836	693,972	5.53	1
2018	3,841	702,455	5.47	1
2019	3,809	705,749	5.40	1
2020	3,766	712,816	5.28	1
2021	3,575	670,050	5.34	1
2022	3,425	671,803	5.10	1
2023	3,342	678,972	4.92	1
2024	3,276	702,250	4.67	1
2025	2,994	693,645	4.32	1

Agencies

Agency	Type	County	FBI reporting
Metro Transit Police	Other	Not Specified	Reporting
Washington Police Department	City	Not Specified	Reporting
District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Arson Investigation Unit	Other	Not Specified	Never