Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Shreveport, Louisiana, in Caddo Parish, has about 177,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the parish jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the District Court for Caddo Parish. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Shreveport public records, Caddo Parish arrest records, Louisiana arrest records and Louisiana inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Shreveport
The FBI lists Shreveport with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Shreveport Police Department. It reported 2,571 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 822 arrests for 2024.
How Many Arrests Shreveport Reports
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Shreveport: 2,571 for 2025, 2,840 for 2024, 2,222 for 2023, 7,366 for 2020 and 12,523 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Shreveport's 2,571 arrests in 2025 were down 9.5 percent from 2,840 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Shreveport reported 1,819 arrests, against 1,442 in the same months of 2025.
Across Caddo Parish, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,713 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Shreveport Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Shreveport is held at the parish jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 1,390 people, down from about 1,520 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 1,500 beds, and it ran at 93 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office at caddosheriff.org/inmates (page title: Caddo Correctional Center Inmates), phone (318) 675-2170, 501 Texas St Room 101, Shreveport, LA 71101, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections lists its inmates at doc.la.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Shreveport
Whether someone was arrested in Shreveport, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the District Court for Caddo Parish, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at caddoclerk.com); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at caddo.gov/portfolio-item/caddo-parish-district-attorney, phone (318) 226-6960).
Louisiana does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Shreveport
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Louisiana Public Records Law the agency must answer within 3 business days when the record is not immediately available, and it may charge a reasonable fee for copies.
- An arrest by the Shreveport police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at shreveportla.gov/2538/Public-Records-Request (page title: Public Records Request | Shreveport, LA), phone 318-673-5200, 505 Travis Street 4th Floor Shreveport, LA 71101, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (318) 675-2170.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (318) 226-6960, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Caddo Parish, through the court records page at caddoclerk.com.
- Any parish record that is not posted: the parish records request page SearchSystems verified is at caddo.gov (page title: Public Records Requests | Parish of Caddo).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
The Caddo Parish guide covers every agency in the parish: Caddo Parish arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Shreveport each year?
Shreveport reported 2,571 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Shreveport?
Ask the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office at (318) 675-2170; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at caddosheriff.org/inmates.
Where are people arrested in Shreveport booked?
Those kept in custody go to the parish jail, run by the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Shreveport?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Caddo Parish are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Louisiana Public Records Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Shreveport?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Shreveport police for its own arrests, the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Louisiana Public Records Law the answer is due within 3 business days when the record is not immediately available; the parish records request page SearchSystems verified is at caddo.gov.
Is this the official Shreveport website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, parish, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.