LAPD PERSONNEL ROSTERS
LAPD has long published personnel rosters listing detailed information such as every officer's rank, division assignment, sex, ethnicity, age, salary, date of hire, and name of supervisor. You can find this information all over the internet. In addition, other government agencies (such as the L.A. City Controller's Office, the California Commission on Police Officer Standards and Training (POST), and the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions office) make much of the same information public too. And of course you can find a lot of information about officers' identities including photographs and video footage on LAPD's website and social media, where LAPD loves to publish images and video footage of officers for PR and recruitment purposes.
After we launched watchthewatchers.net, police and politicians started clamoring that our re-publication of roster information was suddenly a grave threat. Then, a day or two after the City of Los Angeles filed a lawsuit demanding we censor our re-publication of these records, LAPD starting to quietly delete those rosters from the city’s official public records website. But not only is it infeasible to scrub already public information from the internet, hiding public records in this manner is unlawful. So we sued the City of Los Angeles and forced them to put the rosters back online.
We created this page to ensure that these rosters remain public even if LAPD tries to scrub them from the internet again. LAPD's attempt to make these public records disappear illustrates the desperate lengths that city officials are going to create a secret police on our streets.
LAPD Rosters
On or around January 20, 2019, LAPD made public a roster of 10,033 sworn LAPD personnel listing their full names, LAPD serial number, LAPD rank, LAPD division, sex, and ethnicity. This roster is available for the public to download on the city's public records website and either from our back-up copy or from the Internet Archive.
On or around July 17, 2020, LAPD made public a roster of 9,952 sworn LAPD personnel listing their full names, LAPD serial numbers, LAPD rank, sex, and ethnicity. This roster is available for the public to download on the city's public records website and from our back-up copy.
On or around January 14, 2021, LAPD made public a roster of 13,378 both sworn and civilian LAPD personnel listing their full names, LAPD serial number, LAPD rank or title, sex, and ethnicity. This roster is available for the public to download on the city's public records website and from our back-up copy.
On or around January 25, 2022, LAPD made public a roster of 9,494 sworn LAPD personnel listing their full names, LAPD serial number, LAPD rank, LAPD division, gender, ethnicity, and year of hire. This roster is available for the public to download on the city’s public records website and from our back-up copy.
On or around April 6, 2022, LAPD made public a roster of 9,496 sworn LAPD personnel listing their full names, LAPD serial number, LAPD rank, and LAPD division. This roster is available for the public to download on the city's public records website and from our back-up copy.
On or around April 25, 2022, LAPD made public a roster of 9,303 sworn LAPD personnel listing their full names, LAPD serial number, LAPD rank, LAPD division, exact LAPD hire date, and full name of LAPD supervisor. This roster is available for the public to download on the city's public records website and from our back-up copy.
On or around May 3, 2022, LAPD made public a roster of 9,317 sworn LAPD personnel listing their full names, LAPD serial number, LAPD rank, biweekly salary, and LAPD entry date. This roster is available for the public to download on the city's public records website and from our back-up copy.
On or around August 22, 2022, LAPD made public a roster of 9,262 sworn LAPD personnel listing their full names, LAPD serial number, LAPD rank, LAPD division, gender, and ethnicity. This roster is available for the public to download on the city's public records website and from our back-up copy.
On or around January 13, 2023, LAPD made public a roster of 9,165 sworn LAPD personnel listing their full names, LAPD serial number, LAPD rank, LAPD division, gender, ethnicity, and year of hire. This roster is available for the public to download on the city’s public records website and from our back-up copy.
On or around August 13, 2024, LAPD made public a roster of 9,165 sworn LAPD personnel listing their full names, LAPD serial number, LAPD rank, LAPD division, gender, ethnicity, year of hire, height, and weight. LAPD made this roster public in compliance with to a court order in a lawsuit we filed in March 2023. This roster, which is available for the public to download on the city’s public records website, is the same roster as the one LAPD published in January 2023 except with officer heights and weights added.
On or around September 27, 2024, LAPD made public a roster of 7,336 sworn LAPD personnel listing their full names, LAPD serial number, and LAPD badge numbers. LAPD made this roster public to settle a lawsuit we filed in March 2024. This roster is available for the public to download on the city’s public records website.
On or around April 15, 2025, LAPD produced a roster of 8,738 sworn LAPD personnel listing their full names, LAPD serial number, LAPD rank, LAPD division, gender, ethnicity, year of hire, height, and weight. LAPD has not made this roster public yet like it does for other public records requests, but you can download this roster here.
The list on this page is not exhaustive
These are just examples we found by searching “roster” on the city’s public records website (select “Police Department (LAPD)” under Department and press “Apply filters”). You might be able to find more examples.
