Moosed Crime › Fort Wayne, IN
City desk · First edition
The first Moosed Crime desk. Everything here traces to a primary record: the Fort Wayne Police Department's own statistics tables, the Allen County Sheriff's own jail roster, and Allen County court records — plus the booking archive for every jail within 30 miles of the city.
Reported offenses, Jan–Apr 2026 — ▼ 15.66%
from 1,826 in Jan–Apr 2025.
Crime rate per 100,000 people, Jan–Apr 2026, vs 691.97 a year earlier.
Jan–Apr 2026, vs 11 in the same period of 2025 (−63.64%). Assault is the one major category up: 156 vs 137 (+13.87%).
Source: Fort Wayne Police Department, “Cumulative April 2026 Crime Statistics” (cumulative Jan–Apr table), cityoffortwayne.in.gov — read first-hand November 3, 2026. These are offenses reported to police, not case outcomes. Full tables on the Stats page.
FWPD monthly and cumulative tables, exactly as the department publishes them, with FBI/BJS national benchmarks for context.
Open Stats →Bookings from the official Allen County Sheriff roster, captured on a repeated cadence into the archive and followed to court disposition.
Open Arrests →The permanent searchable booking archive: search by name, booking date, charge, or cause number across every in-scope jail. 40 bookings · 4 jails · 31 photos.
Search the archive →What can honestly be mapped today — and what can't. FWPD publishes no geocoded incident feed; this page says so instead of faking pins.
Open the Map →The investigation wing: official investigations in one labeled lane; our own investigations desk — primary records, graded claims — in the other; and the Unsolved Crimes bureau.
Enter the wing →Fort Wayne's police and city fire radio has been encrypted since 2014 — this page says what can still be heard, links the open feeds, and states the transcript desk's redaction and crime-only publishing rules.
Open Scanner →Announced operations only: sobriety checkpoints, enforcement campaigns and major closures, from ISP District 22 on Nixle and the city's own News Flash.
Open Spotter →Free. Always. Removal and correction on dismissal, acquittal, expungement/sealing, an unfiled case, or mistaken identity.
Open Corrections & Removal →The Fort Wayne archive pulls bookings from 8 jails: 7 in Indiana and 1 in Ohio. Distances are straight-line from Fort Wayne city center to each jail's address, computed November 3, 2026; each jail's exact address and official roster source are verified in the project's jail-source inventory before its bookings enter the archive.
Allen (Fort Wayne) · Whitley (Columbia City) · DeKalb (Auburn) · Adams (Decatur) · Huntington · Wells (Bluffton) · Noble (Albion)
Paulding County Jail — 29.6 miles from Fort Wayne, the one Ohio jail inside the 30-mile line.
Jail-source inventory, verified first-hand November 3, 2026: 4 of the 8 counties have a public web roster (Allen, Whitley, DeKalb, Paulding); booking photos are published from all four rosters — Allen 9 of 10, Whitley 10 of 10, Paulding 10 of 10, and DeKalb 2 of 10 with the other 8 held because that source's published roster data changed between views. The other 4 counties (Adams, Huntington, Wells, Noble) publish no web roster, so their bookings are not in the archive: this desk works only from what is published online, never from aggregators.
Every booking on this desk carries that notice. A booking proves an arrest and a jail intake — nothing more. Charges are allegations until a court rules, and archived bookings are followed to disposition in Indiana MyCase or the Ohio clerk of courts.