Arizona
What Arizona's records show, how much of the state the FBI's data covers, and where the state publishes its own.
How Arizona handles a case
- Sets bail first
- Judicial officer at initial appearance (superior court commissioner, justice of the peace, or municipal judge)
- Who that is
- Judges and others
- Release on a schedule
- No
- Time to see a judge
- 24 hours
- Money bail
- Allowed
- Risk assessment
- Public Safety Assessment (statewide)
- Prosecutor
- County attorney, one per county, elected
- Public defense
- Mixed
- Jails run by
- County sheriff
- Who decides release first
A judicial officer sets release at the initial appearance. In Maricopa County, superior court commissioners, who are appointed lawyers, run the initial appearance court; elsewhere justices of the peace and municipal judges often do it. Arizona has no general jail bail schedule, though police may cite and release people for many misdemeanors.
A.R.S. sec. 13-3967A.R.S. sec. 12-213Ariz. Const. art. 2, sec. 22A.R.S. sec. 13-3601- Time to see a judge
A person arrested must be taken before a magistrate within 24 hours, or released. If no complaint is filed within 48 hours of the initial appearance, the person must be released.
Ariz. R. Crim. P. 4.1, as summarized in Arizona Supreme Court, Case Processing Standards Analysis: Criminal Felony (2024)- Money bail
Arizona allows money bail. A judicial officer releases a person on recognizance or on bail in an amount the officer sets, after weighing listed factors such as the charge, criminal history, danger, and the victim's views.
A.R.S. sec. 13-3967
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
FBI data coverage
- Population covered
- 97%
- of Arizona's people lived under an agency that reported to the FBI in 2025.
- Agencies on NIBRS
- 81%
- 104 of 127 agencies send incident detail. The rest send summary counts or nothing.
23 agencies not reporting through NIBRS
- Apache County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Clifton Police DepartmentCity
- Cottonwood Police DepartmentCity
- Graham County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Hayden Police DepartmentCity
- Jerome Police DepartmentCity
- Kearny Police DepartmentCity
- Mammoth Police DepartmentCity
- Maricopa County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Mohave County Parks Department, Park RangersOther
- Nogales Police DepartmentCity
- Pima Police DepartmentCity
- Quechan TribalTribal
- Safford Police DepartmentCity
- San Carlos AgencyTribal
- Sedona Police DepartmentCity
- St. Johns Police DepartmentCity
- Thatcher Police DepartmentCity
- Tohono O'odham NationTribal
- University of ArizonaUniversity or College
- Wickenburg Police DepartmentCity
- Winslow Police DepartmentCity
- Yavapai CollegeUniversity or College
Counties and agencies: no data yet
Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, pulled 2026-09-26.
State crime reporting
- Program
- Arizona Department of Public Safety, Uniform Crime Reporting Program
- Incident reporting
- The state runs its own incident-based repository; its name is not confirmed.
- Annual report
- Crime in Arizona (discontinued after the 2020 edition)Latest edition: 2020. Editions online 2006 to 2020.
- Online portal
- Arizona Crime Statistics (TOPS)Data 2017 to 2026.
- What changed
- DPS says Crime in Arizona is no longer produced; statistics after 2020 are on the TOPS site. TOPS themes (crime overview, violent, property, motor vehicle theft, hate crime, LEOKA) start at 2017.
Links and years checked 2026-09-26.
Arizona sources
- Arizona Crime Statistics (TOPS)State · AZ
Arizona Department of Public Safety · Incidents, Arrests · dashboard · continuous
Public NIBRS statistics site that replaced the Crime in Arizona PDF reports after 2020; earlier reports are on azdps.gov.
Arizona Administrative Office of the Courts · Courts · pdf, dashboard · annual
Superior court by county, limited courts each: filed, terminated, pending. PDF 1999-FY2019; Power BI FY2020 on, for informational purposes only.
Plus 83 national sources, from the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Census Bureau, the courts, and others.