Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 on September 24, 2026.
Caddo Parish, Louisiana, has about 225,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office and four city agencies. An arrest 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 each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Caddo Parish public records, Louisiana arrest records, Louisiana inmate search and Louisiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Caddo Parish
The Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Caddo Parish. It reported 822 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
Arrests inside four of the parish's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Shreveport, 176,578 residents: 2,571 arrests reported for 2025.
- Blanchard, 3,371 residents: 25 arrests reported for 2025.
- Greenwood, 3,091 residents: 117 arrests reported for 2025.
- Ida, 209 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Caddo Parish
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts 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.
- Greenwood: 117 for 2025, 133 for 2024, 129 for 2023, 219 for 2022, 109 for 2021 and 321 for 2020.
- Blanchard: 25 for 2025, 57 for 2024, 27 for 2023, 25 for 2022, 12 for 2021 and 61 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Ida: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022 and 0 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
- Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office: 822 for 2024, 907 for 2023, 928 for 2022, 1,235 for 2021, 1,189 for 2020 and 624 for 2019.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,713 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,713 in 2025 against 3,030 in 2024, down 10 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,877 arrests, against 1,519 in the same months of 2025.
Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office reported only part of 2025 (4 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Caddo Parish Are Held
The parish jail is where a person arrested in Caddo Parish and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
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 Caddo Parish
Whether someone was arrested in Caddo Parish, 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 Caddo Parish
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (318) 675-2170.
- An arrest in Shreveport, Blanchard, Greenwood or Ida: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- 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.
Cities in Caddo Parish: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the 11 cities in Caddo Parish: Shreveport, Blanchard, Greenwood and Ida. Vivian, Oil City, Mooringsport, Belcher, Hosston, Rodessa and Gilliam have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the parish the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the parish jail and the case goes to the District Court for Caddo Parish.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Caddo Parish, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Shreveport (176,578)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Caddo Parish each year?
Shreveport reported 2,571 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,713 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Caddo Parish?
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 Caddo Parish 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 Caddo Parish?
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 Caddo Parish?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 Caddo Parish website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official parish, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.