Colorado
What Colorado's records show, how much of the state the FBI's data covers, and where the state publishes its own.
How Colorado handles a case
- Sets bail first
- Jail on the judicial district's bond schedule or local release policy; then a judge, magistrate, or bond hearing officer
- Who that is
- Judges and others
- Release on a schedule
- Jail or police can release on a schedule
- Time to see a judge
- 48 hours
- Money bail
- Limited
- Risk assessment
- Colorado Pretrial Assessment Tool (CPAT or CPAT-R) (some counties)
- Prosecutor
- District attorney, one per judicial district, elected
- Public defense
- Statewide public defender
- Jails run by
- County sheriff
- Who decides release first
Before any individual bond decision, the jail may release a person under local pretrial release policies or the judicial district's bond schedule, which must account for the person's circumstances and not only the charge. Then a judge, magistrate, or bond hearing officer holds a bond hearing and enters an individual bond order.
C.R.S. 16-4-102C.R.S. 16-4-103C.R.S. 16-4-113- Time to see a judge
A person held in custody must be brought before a court for a bond hearing as soon as practicable and no later than 48 hours after arriving at the jail. Court closures for emergencies, or a person who refuses or is unable to attend, can extend that.
C.R.S. 16-4-102(2)(a)- Money bail
Colorado limits money bail. A court may not set a money condition for traffic or petty offenses, or for city ordinance violations with no matching state misdemeanor. Courts must presume people are eligible for release on the least restrictive conditions, and any bond schedule must weigh the person's own risk and circumstances.
C.R.S. 16-4-113C.R.S. 16-4-103
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
FBI data coverage
- Population covered
- 99%
- of Colorado's people lived under an agency that reported to the FBI in 2025.
- Agencies on NIBRS
- 95%
- 241 of 253 agencies send incident detail. The rest send summary counts or nothing.
12 agencies not reporting through NIBRS
- Colorado Department of Revenue: Criminal Investigation SectionOther State Agency
- Colorado Department of Revenue: Marijuana Enforcement Criminal Investigation, Boulder CountyOther State Agency
- Colorado Department of Revenue: Marijuana Enforcement Criminal Investigation, El Paso CountyOther State Agency
- Colorado Department of Revenue: Marijuana Enforcement DivisionOther State Agency
- Colorado Division of Liquor EnforcementOther State Agency
- Colorado Division of Motor Vehicle InvestigationsOther State Agency
- Colorado Division of Racing Events, Criminal Enforcement and Investigations SectionOther State Agency
- Division of Gaming Criminal Enforcement and Investigations Section, Cripple CreekOther State Agency
- Keystone Police DepartmentCity
- La Jara Police DepartmentCity
- Manzanola Police DepartmentCity
- State Lottery Criminal InvestigationsOther State Agency
Counties and agencies: no data yet
Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, pulled 2026-09-26.
State crime reporting
- Program
- Colorado Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting program
- Incident reporting
- The state runs its own incident-based repository; its name is not confirmed.
- Annual report
- Crime in Colorado (retired; replaced by Colorado Crime Statistics)Latest edition: 2016.
- Online portal
- Colorado Crime StatisticsData 2008 to 2026.
- What changed
- CBI launched Colorado Crime Statistics in September 2018 and retired the summary-based Crime in Colorado report; 2017 data went only to the new site.
Links and years checked 2026-09-26.
Colorado sources
Colorado Bureau of Investigation · Incidents, Arrests · dashboard · continuous
CBI NIBRS repository with a public statistics site (TOPS).
Colorado Judicial Branch · Courts · pdf, dashboard · annual
District court criminal filings and terminations by county within district; county court tables. FY2021-FY2024 online.
Plus 83 national sources, from the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Census Bureau, the courts, and others.