Metro Nashville Police Department

What the department spends, and what overtime does to it

Actual expenses from Metro's open budget-to-actual table, adopted budgets from each year's own budget book. Metro fiscal years run July to June. Tap a button to switch the chart between all spend and the Overtime Pay line.

"Adopted" is the GSD General Fund figure in the year's own budget book (the FY2027 book was published May 2026). "Actual" is the open table's GSD General Fund plus the fixed $481,000 USD transfer; grant-funded Special Purpose Funds are not in the table. Overtime budgets FY2019 to FY2025 are the table's own budget column, which is not revised at line level; FY2026 and FY2027 are the budget book's Overtime line. FY2018 is left out because the table's FY2018 actuals repeat FY2017 for every department.

FY2025, GSD General Fund: the ten biggest lines, budget against actual

Bar shows actual minus budget. Left is under budget, right is over. Metro budget-to-actual table.

1. Regular Pay $-22.9M budget $168,662,900, actual $145,782,847
2. Employer Group Health +$2.2M budget $23,760,900, actual $25,977,293
3. Employer Pension +$0.3M budget $23,894,800, actual $24,211,080
4. Leave Pay +$5.0M budget $12,991,900, actual $18,013,849
5. Overtime Pay +$6.1M budget $10,165,800, actual $16,258,714
6. Employer OASDI $-0.4M budget $12,032,100, actual $11,676,378
7. Holiday Pay +$4.9M budget $5,745,400, actual $10,666,272
8. Fleet Management +$0.0M budget $9,055,900, actual $9,056,613
9. Other Rpr & Maint Srvc +$1.2M budget $6,583,100, actual $7,802,339
10. Info Systems Charge $0.0M budget $6,772,200, actual $6,772,200

Spend per reported incident and per budgeted sworn position

A workload ratio, not a cost of crime: incidents include the non-criminal reports the department records. Both sides are on the same Metro fiscal year. Sworn positions are the budgeted count of Police Officer through Chief titles in the year's budget book.

Reported incidents by month, 2019 to 2026

Every year drawn over the same twelve months. Summer runs high, November to February low, and the whole shape moves up or down by year. Counts are distinct incident numbers, all report types, including non-criminal reports such as found property and matters of record. Tap a year to bring it forward.

The dataset is a rolling seven years exported daily from MNPD's records system and "subject to change during an investigation". Median time from occurrence to report is under four hours in every year, so recent months are close to final. Rows are one per offense per victim; this page counts incident numbers once.

Where the work lands: incidents by precinct, 2025

Each incident placed in a precinct by its rounded coordinates and Metro's current Police Precinct Boundaries layer (nine precincts, edited 2025-01-02). The Southeast Precinct opened 2025-11-07; its boundary is applied to every year, so earlier years show what today's map would call Southeast. Tap a year.

1. Southeast 13,455 13.6%
2. South 12,130 12.3%
3. Hermitage 12,025 12.2%
4. North 11,843 12.0%
5. Madison 9,929 10.0%
6. Midtown Hills 9,777 9.9%
7. East 9,583 9.7%
8. Central 9,075 9.2%
9. West 8,465 8.6%

2,447 incidents in 2025 carry no coordinates (the dataset withholds location for open investigations) and 144 fall outside the precinct layer; both are in the 2025 total of 98,873 but not in the bars. 97.5% of the year's incidents were placed.

The same year by broad offense group

The primary offense of each incident, grouped the way NIBRS does (crimes against persons, property, society) plus the non-criminal reports MNPD files in the same system: matters of record, found and lost property, deaths, overdoses, recovered property.

1. Non-criminal reports 39,772 40.2%
2. Crimes against property 34,758 35.2%
3. Crimes against persons 17,428 17.6%
4. Crimes against society 6,913 7.0%
5. Other or unknown 2 0.0%

Positions: budgeted by year, filled as of one snapshot

Metro does not publish a year-by-year filled headcount for the department in its open data. It does publish the budgeted position list in every budget book, and a single snapshot of every general-government employee's title. Both are here; the difference between them is the vacancy story behind the overtime line.

1. FY2022 2,158 1,558 sworn-rank, 600 other
2. FY2023 2,215 1,608 sworn-rank, 607 other
3. FY2024 2,277 1,658 sworn-rank, 619 other
4. FY2025 2,277 1,658 sworn-rank, 619 other
5. FY2026 2,407 1,745 sworn-rank, 662 other
6. FY2027 2,398 1,746 sworn-rank, 652 other

sworn-rank titles other titles

Filled positions by title, snapshot of 2026-09-09

General Government Employees Titles and Base Annual Salaries, data.nashville.gov. Counts of titles only; the dataset itself carries names and salaries, which this page does not use. The twelve most common titles in the Police department.

Budget book position counts are the FY2026 and FY2027 books' own figures; the FY2026 book's position sections sum to 2,403 against its printed total of 2,407, and the printed total is used. The FY2027 book was published May 2026.