Hawaii
What Hawaii's records show, how much of the state the FBI's data covers, and where the state publishes its own.
How Hawaii handles a case
- Sets bail first
- Police chief or designee for offenses up to two years; judge for others
- 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
- Allowed
- Risk assessment
- Ohio Risk Assessment System Pretrial Assessment Tool (ORAS-PAT) (statewide)
- Prosecutor
- Prosecuting attorney, one per county
- Public defense
- Statewide public defender
- Jails run by
- State
- Who decides release first
For offenses punishable by no more than two years, the police chief or someone the chief names may set bail and release the person without a judge. For more serious charges, a judge decides, and for the most serious only a judge of a court of record can.
HRS 804-5HRS 804-9- Time to see a judge
Within 48 hours of an arrest, police must either release the person or charge them and take them before a judge.
HRS 803-9(5)- Money bail
Money bail is allowed. Since a 2019 law, bail must be a reasonable amount that accounts for the person's ability to afford it, under the least restrictive conditions needed. Courts may deny bail for serious crimes after specific findings.
HRS 804-9HRS 804-3HRS 804-7.5
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
FBI data coverage
- Population covered
- 100%
- of Hawaii's people lived under an agency that reported to the FBI in 2025.
- Agencies on NIBRS
- 30%
- 4 of 13 agencies send incident detail. The rest send summary counts or nothing.
9 agencies not reporting through NIBRS
- Department of Law Enforcement: Criminal Investigations DivisionOther State Agency
- Department of Law Enforcement: Executive Protection SectionOther State Agency
- Department of Law Enforcement: Harbors EnforcementOther State Agency
- Department of Law Enforcement: Hawaii IslandOther State Agency
- Department of Law Enforcement: KauaiOther State Agency
- Department of Law Enforcement: MauiOther State Agency
- Department of Law Enforcement: Narcotics Enforcement DivisionOther State Agency
- Department of Law Enforcement: OahuOther State Agency
- Department of Law Enforcement: Office of Inspector GeneralOther State Agency
Counties and agencies: no data yet
Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, pulled 2026-09-26.
State crime reporting
- Program
- Hawaii Department of the Attorney General, Crime Prevention and Justice Assistance Division, Research and Statistics Branch
- Incident reporting
- The state runs its own incident-based repository; its name is not confirmed.
- Annual report
- Crime in Hawaii (ended with the 2021 edition)Latest edition: 2021. Editions online 1996 to 2021.
- Online portal
- Hawaii Crime DashboardData 2021 to 2025.
- What changed
- The dashboard launched in December 2025 (2021-2024 data) and replaced the Crime in Hawaii publications. 2025 data was added in September 2026. The legacy reports are labeled Summary Reporting System.
Links and years checked 2026-09-26.
Hawaii sources
- Crime in HawaiiState · HI
Hawaii Department of the Attorney General, Crime Prevention and Justice Assistance Division · Incidents, Arrests · pdf · annual
The Attorney General's office runs the state UCR program and publishes the annual Crime in Hawaii reports.
Hawaii State Judiciary · Courts · pdf · annual
Circuit court (effectively county) criminal pending, filed, terminated. 1998-2021+.
Plus 83 national sources, from the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Census Bureau, the courts, and others.