San Mateo County, California | Police Funding Database | LDF

San Mateo County at a glance

Population by race and Hispanic origin

Key	Awarding Agency	Amount in Dollars
	White, not Hispanic or Latino	248,259
	Black or African American	13,724
	American Indian and Alaska native	1,028
	Asian	236,961
	Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	6,971
	Two or More Races	45,748
	Hispanic or Latino	185,650

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Full-time law enforcement staff, San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office

300 Officers
387 Civilian staff

Full-time law enforcement officers per 1,000 residents

5.38 San Mateo County
2.2 National average

Federal grant funding for San Mateo County

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Military equipment transfers

We were unable to locate any military equipment transfers for this location using the LESO Property Transferred to Participating Agencies database published by the Defense Logistics Agency. It is possible that this location has acquired military equipment for policing via other sources or programs.

Local police misconduct data, consent decrees, and settlements

Data last updated November 17, 2025

Settlements

We identified 1 publicly reported settlement that resulted in $4,500,000.00 in monetary compensation to victims.

Settlements
Year	Description	Outcome
2022	In August 2022, San Mateo County, California, agreed to a $4.5 million settlement with the family of Chinedu Valentine Okobi, a thirty-six-year-old man who died after a 2018 encounter with sheriff’s deputies. On October 3, 2018, sheriff’s deputies stopped Okobi on suspicion of jaywalking and subsequently used their Tasers, batons, and pepper spray on him. After Deputy Joshua Wang deployed his Taser seven times, Okobi suffered cardiac arrest and died. The County District Attorney’s Office cleared Wang and four other deputies of any criminal charges. The incident spurred calls for a moratorium on Taser use in San Mateo County. The Sheriff’s Office later revised its use-of-force policy, advising against deploying Tasers more than three times against a person unless there are exceptional circumstances. Okobi’s death also influenced reforms to California’s jaywalking law that limited law enforcement’s ability to stop pedestrians for minor infractions. Source "San Mateo County to pay $4.5M settlement to family of man who died during ‘jaywalking stop gone wrong’", Bay City News Service, February 13, 2023	Compensation $4,500,000.00