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See if Police in Your State Reported Crime Data to the FBI

Nearly one-third of law enforcement agencies are missing from the FBI’s 2022 crime statistics. Use our tables to check on your state and local agencies.

For the 2024 election season, we've updated this reporting to cover the latest changes — and debates — around crime stats.

In 2022, 31% of the 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the U.S. failed to report crime data to the FBI's national database after transitioning to a new data collection system, according to the latest statistics from the FBI. Participation has improved since 2021 when almost 40% of the agencies were missing. The Marshall Project continues to follow the real-world consequences of the gaps.

In 73% of law enforcement agencies reported crime data to the FBI, and 44% reported a full year of crime data in 2022.

599 out of 822 law enforcement agencies in Ohio successfully submitted data to the FBI through the National Incident-Based Reporting System in 2022. The agencies that reported any crime stats represent more than 91% of the people in the state.

32 states and the District of Columbia had higher reporting rates than Ohio.

In Ohio, the law enforcement agency with the largest jurisdiction that did not report 12 months of crime data to the FBI is the Butler County Sheriff's Office, which reported 11 months of crime data in 2022. According to the FBI, 79,000 people live under its jurisdiction, which represent 1% of people living in the state.

Source: Agency participation data compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Feb. 7, 2023, which was the deadline for local agencies to submit crime data for the Q4 2022 quarterly report. Local agencies had until March 7, 2022 to submit data for the FBI's 2022 national crime report, so the final participation status may change.

Reporting by state

The missing data is not random. While 17 states had nearly perfect participation in the FBI’s crime data, less than 10% of the agencies in Florida and Pennsylvania submitted their data in 2022.

State
Agencies reporting
Total agencies
Reporting rate
Pop. coverage
Pop.
Pop. coverage pct
Florida
49
633
8%
4.4M
21M
21%
Pennsylvania
126
1,392
9%
5.1M
13M
41%
New York
141
583
24%
4.3M
19M
22%
Source: Agency participation data compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Feb. 7, 2023, which was the deadline for local agencies to submit crime data for the Q4 2022 quarterly report. Local agencies had until March 7, 2022 to submit data for the FBI's 2022 national crime report, so the final participation status may change.

Reporting by agency

Many criminologists fear the missing data means reliable crime rates will be unavailable later this decade. When local police departments don’t report data to the FBI, examining local crime trends or comparing rates in different communities becomes impossible.

2022 reporting status:
Agency
Pop.
2021 reporting
status
2022 reporting
status
New York City Police Department
New York
8.3M
Los Angeles Police Department
California
4.0M
Chicago Police Dept
Illinois
2.7M
Houston Police Department
Texas
2.3M
Harris County Sheriff's Office
Texas
2.0M
Phoenix Police Department
Arizona
1.7M
Source: Agency participation data compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Feb. 7, 2023, which was the deadline for local agencies to submit crime data for the Q4 2022 quarterly report. Local agencies had until March 7, 2022 to submit data for the FBI's 2022 national crime report, so the final participation status may change.

Download the crime participation data.

Weihua Li Twitter Email was a data reporter at The Marshall Project. She uses data analysis and visualization to tell stories about the criminal justice system. She studied journalism and comparative politics at Boston University and graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree in data journalism.

Andrew Rodriguez Calderón Twitter Email Andrew is a data project lead at The Marshall Project. He uses collaborative design, community engagement and artificial intelligence to design and develop stories and products driven by people most affected by the issues that we cover.

David Eads Twitter Email is The Marshall Project's data editor. He has been covering criminal justice issues since co-founding The Invisible Institute in the early 2000s. He was a member of the team of independent journalists who won the 2019 Premio Gabo for reporting on mass graves in Mexico.

Anna Flagg Twitter Email is The Marshall Project's senior data reporter, covering criminal justice topics including immigration, crime, race, policing and incarceration. Her work has been recognized by the Global Editors Network’s Data Journalism Awards, the Society of News Design and the Information is Beautiful Awards, and she was a finalist for a 2019 Deadline Club Award.