Redwood City Police Department Arrests

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Welcome to our new Police Department Arrests page. Here you will find information about the total number of arrests (by year), information about the event that resulted in an arrest, and demographic information of the individual arrested.

We want to answer your questions and hope the information on this page is helpful.

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Summary at a Glance

The summary below visually shares a high-level summation of information. For an interactive experience including customizing filters, data points, and demographic information, please see the Interactive Dashboard section further down this page.

Disclaimer

The community served by the RCPD includes visitors in addition to residents. The demographic data for police activity is not expected to directly reflect Redwood City's resident demographics.

Arrest by year

Arrest by Incident Type

Quick Facts:

The type of activity most likely to result in arrest were those classified as Serious or Violent Crimes, the least likely were classified as Property Related, Non-Criminal.
Of the 13,015 activities classified as Serious or Violent Crime, 9%, involved arrest. Of the Property Related, Non-Criminal activities, 8% involved arrest.
13,697 arrests over 8 years amounts to roughly 1,700 arrests a year, or 5 arrests a day.
5,234 of arrests were from Officer Initiated Activity, and 6,973 were in response to Calls for Service from the public.

Redwood City Police Department Interactive Dashboard and Reporting

Arrests Dashboard (Click to Expand)

Click Here To Access the Arrests Dashboard

Notes on the data:

Demographics of the individuals arrested are collected by the police officer(s) involved.

Citywide race and ethnicity data are from the US Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates 2019 table B03002 (universe: total population) using Redwood City as “Place”. The dataset includes "ethnicity" as either hispanic ("Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin") or non-hispanic. The dataset includes race as: White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Asian, Other, Two or More Races. “Hispanic” in this visual is all races where ethnicity is hispanic. White, Black, Asian, Other (include “Two or More Races”), Pacific Islander, and American Indian all refer to “Non-hispanic” ethnicity. Visit this page for more details: https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/assets/pdf/checked/1/Explanation_of_Draft_Standards.pdf
The term “POC” meaning “People of Color” is used to group the races reported in the data, these include people who were identified as Asian, Black, Hispanic, Mixed, and Pacific Islander.
Each arrest has one or more associated “activities”, which are linked through a shared “incident ID”. These activities are from the Redwood City Police Department's (RCPD) RIMS Record and Case Management System in which all activity reported to dispatch by an officer and all 911 calls routed through dispatch are documented. Upon creation the record is assigned a type code (here shown as the "subtype"), these codes were grouped into "types" by RCPD for this project. Visuals show activity count, not time spent.
Some arrests have more than one associated activity, for the purposes of these visuals the earliest documented activity was used as the associated event.

Arrests Report (Click to Expand)