Connecticut
What Connecticut's records show, how much of the state the FBI's data covers, and where the state publishes its own.
How Connecticut handles a case
- Sets bail first
- Police chief or designee, then Judicial Branch bail commissioner
- Who that is
- Not a judge
- Release on a schedule
- Jail or police can release on a schedule
- Time to see a judge
- No hour limit set
- Money bail
- Limited (2017)
- Risk assessment
- Uniform weighted release criteria (statewide)
- Prosecutor
- State's attorney, one per judicial district, appointed
- Public defense
- Statewide public defender
- Jails run by
- State
- Who decides release first
The police decide first. A police chief or designee must interview the arrested person and release them on a written promise or a bond the officer sets. If the person can't post it, a Judicial Branch bail commissioner or intake specialist sets conditions. Police can't release on a promise or unsecured bond in a family violence crime involving a firearm.
C.G.S. 54-63c and 54-63d- Time to see a judge
A person arrested and not released must be presented promptly at the next regular sitting of the Superior Court where the offense happened. The law sets no hour limit. The U.S. Supreme Court's 48-hour rule for a probable cause finding applies as the federal floor.
C.G.S. 54-1g- Money bail
Money bail is allowed. Since 2017, when the only charges are misdemeanors, a court may not set money bail unless the charge is family violence, the person asks for it, or the court finds a likely risk they will not appear or will obstruct justice.
C.G.S. 54-64a(a)(2)
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
FBI data coverage
- Population covered
- 100%
- of Connecticut's people lived under an agency that reported to the FBI in 2025.
- Agencies on NIBRS
- 100%
- 108 of 108 agencies send incident detail.
Counties and agencies: no data yet
Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, pulled 2026-09-26.
State crime reporting
- Program
- Connecticut DESPP, Division of State Police, Crimes Analysis Unit
- Incident reporting
- Yes, the Crimes Analysis Unit runs the state incident-based repository (CT IBRS); all agencies on NIBRS from 2021.
- Annual report
- Crime in ConnecticutLatest edition: 2025. Editions online 2017 to 2025.
- Online portal
- Connecticut Crime Online (Crime Data Repository)Data since 2014.
- What changed
- Reports moved from dpsdata.ct.gov to portal.ct.gov in 2017; the old dpsdata site now rejects requests. State advises using SRS data before 2021 for statewide comparisons. Also posts quarterly Crime in CT reports and an NIBRS dataset on data.ct.gov.
Links and years checked 2026-09-26.
Connecticut sources
Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection · Incidents, Arrests, Hate crime · pdf, dashboard · annual
State UCR/NIBRS program with Crime in Connecticut annual reports; public data repository (2014 onward) at ct.beyond2020.com.
Connecticut Department of Correction · Bail, Jails · csv, api · continuous
Nightly snapshot of everyone held pretrial since 2016-07-01 with bond amount, offense, facility, anonymized identifier. No judge field. Socrata API.
Connecticut Judicial Branch · Courts · pdf · annual
Geographical area courts and judicial districts (no county government): pending, added, disposed. FY2007-08 to FY2025.
Plus 83 national sources, from the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Census Bureau, the courts, and others.