Michigan

What Michigan's records show, how much of the state the FBI's data covers, and where the state publishes its own.

How Michigan handles a case

Sets bail first: District court magistrate or district judge; police or jail interim bond for misdemeanors up to one year
Who that is: Judges and others
Release on a schedule: Jail or police can release on a schedule
Time to see a judge: No hour limit set
Money bail: Allowed
Risk assessment: Some counties
Prosecutor: Prosecuting attorney, one per county, elected
Public defense: Mixed
Jails run by: County sheriff

Who decides release first: For a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year, when no magistrate is available, the arresting officer, a supervisor, or the jail may take an interim cash bond set between part of the minimum fine and the maximum fine. For other charges, a district judge or district court magistrate sets bail at arraignment. Magistrates can set bail in all cases.
MCL 780.581 MCL 780.582a MCL 600.8511
Time to see a judge: Police must bring a person arrested without a warrant before a magistrate without unnecessary delay. Michigan law sets no number of hours.
MCL 764.13 MCL 764.26
Money bail: Michigan courts may set money bail. The constitution makes most people bailable by sufficient sureties, and the court must make findings on the record when it fixes an amount.
Mich. Const. art. I, sec. 15 MCL 765.6

Crime and arrests

No figures yet

Reported offenses and arrests per 100,000 people, year by year, and how Michigan compares with the country. They will come from the FBI's state totals.

FBI data coverage

Population covered: 96%; of Michigan's people lived under an agency that reported to the FBI in 2025.
Agencies on NIBRS: 99%; 651 of 654 agencies send incident detail. The rest send summary counts or nothing.

3 agencies not reporting through NIBRS

Dundee Police DepartmentCity
Home Township Police DepartmentCity
Walkerville Police DepartmentCity

Counties and agencies: no data yet

Every agency in Michigan by county, with the year each began sending incident detail to the FBI. They will come from the FBI's agency list and its NIBRS master files.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, pulled 2026-09-26.

State crime reporting

Program: Michigan State Police, Criminal Justice Information Center, Michigan Incident Crime Reporting (MICR) Unit
Incident reporting: Yes, MICR has collected incident-based data since 1982; the state UCR program began in 1959 and reporting was required by PA 319 of 1968.
Annual report: Crime in Michigan (MICR Annual Report)Latest edition: 2022. Editions online 2007 to 2022.
Online portal: Crime in Michigan dashboard
What changed: The annual report ended with 2022; from 2023 the annual figures appear only in the Crime in Michigan dashboard. 2007 was the first annual report built only from incident data.

Links and years checked 2026-09-26.

Michigan sources

2 sources

Michigan Incident Crime Reporting (MICR)State · MI
Michigan State Police, Criminal Justice Information Center · Incidents, Arrests · dashboard, pdf · annual
State NIBRS program; annual reports moved to the Crime in Michigan dashboard starting with 2023 data.
Michigan court caseload reportsState · MI
Michigan State Court Administrative Office · Courts · pdf, dashboard · annual
Per court (circuit per county): pending, new, reopened, dispositions by type, criminal capital and non-capital. PDF 1999-2021; dashboard 2022 on.

Plus 83 national sources, from the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Census Bureau, the courts, and others.