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FWPD's own published tables
These are the Fort Wayne Police Department's own published tables, reproduced exactly. They count offenses reported to police. They do not count arrests, charges filed, or convictions — a reported offense and a case outcome are different records, and this page never mixes them.
Total reported offenses, Jan–Apr 2026 ▼ 15.66%
vs 1,826 in Jan–Apr 2025.
Homicides, Jan–Apr 2026 ▼ 63.64%
vs 11 in Jan–Apr 2025.
Assaults, Jan–Apr 2026 ▲ 13.87%
vs 137 in Jan–Apr 2025 — the one major category up.
The most recent cumulative table FWPD has published. Year-to-date offenses, with the same period of 2025 beside it.
| Offenses | 2026 | 2025 | Difference | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 4 | 11 | −7 | −63.64% |
| Rape | 38 | 48 | −10 | −20.83% |
| Robbery | 32 | 48 | −16 | −33.33% |
| Assault | 156 | 137 | +19 | +13.87% |
| Burglary | 92 | 114 | −22 | −19.30% |
| Larceny | 1,077 | 1,311 | −234 | −17.85% |
| Vehicle Theft | 129 | 144 | −15 | −10.42% |
| Arson | 12 | 13 | −1 | −7.69% |
| Human Trafficking | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Total | 1,540 | 1,826 | −286 | −15.66% |
| Crime Rate (per 100,000 people) | 563.23 | 691.97 |
Source: Fort Wayne Police Department, “Cumulative April 2026 Crime Statistics,” cityoffortwayne.in.gov (Police Department › Crime Stats) — read first-hand November 3, 2026.
The most recent single-month table FWPD has published.
| Offenses | 2026 | 2025 | Difference | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 2 | −2 | −100.00% |
| Rape | 8 | 9 | −1 | −11.11% |
| Robbery | 3 | 13 | −10 | −76.92% |
| Assault | 37 | 30 | +7 | +23.33% |
| Burglary | 21 | 22 | −1 | −4.55% |
| Larceny | 242 | 241 | +1 | +0.41% |
| Vehicle Theft | 30 | 12 | +18 | +150.00% |
| Arson | 2 | 1 | +1 | +100.00% |
| Human Trafficking | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Total | 343 | 330 | +13 | +3.94% |
| Crime Rate (per 100,000 people) | 125.45 | 123.95 |
Source: Fort Wayne Police Department, “February 2026 Crime Statistics,” cityoffortwayne.in.gov — read first-hand November 3, 2026.
As of November 3, 2026, the newest tables on FWPD's Crime Stats pages are the cumulative table through April 2026 and the monthly table for February 2026. Months after that are not published there. We publish what the department publishes and mark the gap — we do not estimate the missing months. Our investigations desk is tracking this as its first open item (Investigations).
FWPD's own published tables (above) count reported offenses. Arrests are a different record, and the published source for them is the FBI's Crime Data Explorer: FWPD reports its arrests to the FBI through Indiana's NIBRS program, and the FBI publishes them by agency. The totals below are on the arrestee-line basis: the FBI's by-sex, by-race and by-age arrestee tables, which agree with each other exactly. Arrests are events, not unique people — one person arrested three times is counted three times — and an arrest is not a charge, a conviction, or an outcome.
Arrests in 2025 (arrestee-line total). The offense-table total for 2025 is 4,671 — 10 higher; see the counting note below.
Arrests in 2024 (arrestee-line total). The offense-table total for 2024 is 4,864 — 8 higher; see the counting note below.
Arrests in 2023 (arrestee-line total). The offense-table total for 2023 is 4,982 — 4 higher; see the counting note below.
Offense groups are the FBI's Offense Category table for FWPD, 2025; bar lengths are each group's share of the 4,661 arrestee-line total. The drug category breaks down as 668 = drug possession 602 + drug sale/manufacturing 59 + unspecified drug abuse violations 7.
Race is printed as recorded in the FBI tables. The FBI publishes no Hispanic-ethnicity split in these arrest tables, so no ethnicity breakdown exists for FWPD arrests from this source — none is shown, and none is estimated.
Age bands group the FBI's published age buckets (under 18 combines “Under 10,” “10–12,” “13–14” and ages 15–17; the remaining bands group the FBI's five-year buckets and single years as published).
The FBI's offense tables and monthly counts for FWPD total slightly more arrests than its demographic tables: the demographic total runs 4–10 below the offense-table total across the years published here (2025: 4,661 against 4,671, a difference of 10; 2024: 8; 2023: 4). The FBI publishes no explanation for the gap; this page follows the demographic lines and says so, rather than blending the two. Coverage was verified month by month in the FBI's own counts series: FWPD reported all 12 months of 2023, 2024 and 2025. 2026 is partial (January–August only) and is not quoted here as a year.
Source: FBI Criminal Justice Information Services, Crime Data Explorer (cde.ucr.cjis.gov), arrest data for the Fort Wayne Police Department (ORI IN0020100) — retrieved November 3, 2026.
The only published Indiana traffic-stop series is statewide. The Indiana State Police Enforcement Bureau publishes monthly statewide totals; for September 2026 they are:
Traffic stops, statewide, September 2026.
Traffic citations issued, statewide, September 2026.
Traffic warnings issued, statewide, September 2026.
Citations and warnings together exceed the stop count because one stop can produce several of each; the release does not claim otherwise. These figures are Indiana totals — not Fort Wayne's. The standard release carries no district breakout and no driver demographics, and it is shown here only as state context.
Source: Indiana State Police, Enforcement Bureau statistics for September 2026, as released by ISP — consulted November 3, 2026.
Fort Wayne stop counts, stop reasons, stopped-driver age, sex and race, and the city's own citation-vs-warning split are published by no source — not by the City of Fort Wayne or FWPD, not by Allen County, not by the State of Indiana, and not by any federal source. Indiana publishes no traffic-stop demographics at any level. The statewide panel above is the closest published context, and it is not Fort Wayne data.
This desk publishes what is accessible online. If a figure is not published, we say so — we do not estimate it.
The FBI's national estimates for 2024 (the most recent full year), published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics from the FBI's NIBRS estimation program in Crime Known to Law Enforcement, 2024: the U.S. violent-crime rate was 370.8 per 100,000 residents, down about 6% from 393.9 in 2023 — homicide 5.1, rape 39.5, robbery 62.5, and aggravated assault 263.7 per 100,000. These are national estimates, not Fort Wayne agency counts; FWPD's categories (its “Assault” line is not the FBI's “aggravated assault”) do not line up one-to-one, so we present the two side by side and never blend them. Fort Wayne's agency-level figures live in the FBI's Crime Data Explorer (cde.ucr.cjis.gov), which FWPD feeds — the department's Crime Analysis Unit compiles the city's statistics and forwards them to the FBI-UCR program.
Sources: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics / FBI, “Crime Known to Law Enforcement, 2024” (NCJ 310856, March 2026); City of Fort Wayne, FWPD Crime Analysis Unit page — both consulted November 3, 2026.