Police Funding And Staffing Levels

While the basics of police funding are provided in town budgets, staffing numbers are not always provided. By combining data from town budgets, annual reports, and other official town/city-provided information, we have calculated rough staffing numbers for Arlington and comparable towns.

Data Catalog Listing

Datasets pointing to police department staffing and organizational information for Arlington and comparable towns.

Spreadsheet of police staffing levels per 1K residents (2019 Census estimates)
Data From: Arlington Open Data Volunteers | Overview / Landing Page
Keywords: police, staffing

  • Spreadsheet of police officers by rank/type; some numbers are approximate due to how staffing categories listed differently per town. Download source (csv)

Links to various official documents about the Arlington Police Department
Data From: Town Of Arlington | Overview / Landing Page
Keywords: police, arlington

Datasets pointing to police department staffing and organizational information for Belmont.
Data From: Town Of Belmont | Overview / Landing Page
Keywords: police, belmont

Datasets pointing to police department staffing and organizational information for Brookline.
Data From: Town Of Brookline | Overview / Landing Page
Keywords: police, brookline

  • Town Of Brookline 2019 Program Budget (141pp) Download source (PDF)
    p49;IV-49: Count of FTE personnel per type of position.

Datasets pointing to police department staffing and organizational information for Cambridge.
Data From: City Of Cambridge | Overview / Landing Page
Keywords: police, cambridge

  • FY21 OPERATING BUDGET – EXPENDITURES BY FUNCTION (188pp) Download source (PDF)
    p77: Count of FTE personnel per type of position.

Datasets pointing to police department staffing and organizational information for Lexington.
Data From: Town Of Lexington | Overview / Landing Page
Keywords: police, lexington

  • Fiscal Year 2021 Town Manager's Preliminary Recommended Budget & Financing Plan (252pp) Download source (PDF)
    p133;VI-5: Count of FTE personnel per type of position.

Datasets pointing to police department staffing and organizational information for Medford.
Data From: City Of Medford | Overview / Landing Page
Keywords: police, medford

  • Fiscal Year 2091 Budget (129pp) Download source (PDF)
    p65: Count of FTE personnel per type of position.

Datasets pointing to police department staffing and organizational information for Needham.
Data From: City Of Needham | Overview / Landing Page
Keywords: police, needham

  • Departmental Budget Submissions (360pp) Download source (PDF)
    p119: Count of FTE personnel per type of position.

Datasets pointing to police department staffing and organizational information for Somerville.
Data From: City Of Somerville | Overview / Landing Page
Keywords: police, somerville

  • City of Somerville Municipal Budget FY2020 Proposed (255pp) Download source (PDF)
    p166: Count of FTE personnel per type of position.

Datasets pointing to police department staffing and organizational information for Watertown.
Data From: Town Of Watertown | Overview / Landing Page
Keywords: police, watertown

Datasets pointing to police department staffing and organizational information for Natick.
Data From: Town Of Natick | Overview / Landing Page
Keywords: police, natick

  • FY 2021 Town Administrator’s Preliminary Budget (pp259) Download source (PDF)
    p59: Count of FTE personnel per type of position.

Datasets pointing to police department staffing and organizational information for North Andover.
Data From: Town Of North Andover | Overview / Landing Page
Keywords: police, north-andover

Datasets pointing to police department staffing and organizational information for Reading.
Data From: Town Of Reading | Overview / Landing Page
Keywords: police, reading

Datasets pointing to police department staffing and organizational information for Stoneham.
Data From: Town Of Stoneham | Overview / Landing Page
Keywords: police, stoneham

  • Proposed Operating Budget and Capital Improvement Plan (pp121) Download source (PDF)
    p52: Count of FTE personnel per type of position.