Missouri

Sets bail first

Circuit or associate circuit judge on the warrant; municipal bond schedule at the jail for ordinance arrests

Who that is

Judges and others

Release on a schedule

In some counties

Time to see a judge

48 hours

Money bail

Allowed

Risk assessment

Some counties

Prosecutor

Prosecuting attorney, one per county, elected

Public defense

Statewide public defender

Jails run by

Mixed

Who decides release first

For state charges, a circuit or associate circuit judge usually sets release conditions on the warrant issued after the prosecutor files, then reviews them at the initial appearance. For city ordinance arrests, jails apply municipal bond schedules. Whether jails use money schedules for state charges is not confirmed.

RSMo 544.170Mo. Sup. Ct. R. 22.08Mo. Sup. Ct. R. 33.01

Time to see a judge

A person arrested without a warrant must be released within 24 hours unless charged and held on a warrant. Once held on a felony warrant, the person must see a judge within 48 hours, not counting weekends and holidays. A person still held gets a detention hearing within seven business days.

RSMo 544.170Mo. Sup. Ct. R. 22.07Mo. Sup. Ct. R. 33.05

Money bail

Missouri courts may set money bail. Since 2019 the court rule presumes release on recognizance and tells judges to consider non-money conditions first and set money only if those won't do.

Mo. Sup. Ct. R. 33.01

Population covered

98%

of Missouri's people lived under an agency that reported to the FBI in 2025.

Agencies on NIBRS

95%

575 of 604 agencies send incident detail. The rest send summary counts or nothing.

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

Program

Missouri State Highway Patrol, Criminal Justice Information Services and Statistical Analysis Center (MoUCR)

Incident reporting

MIBRS (Missouri Incident-Based Reporting System); statewide UCR program since 2001

Annual report

Crime in MissouriLatest edition: 2018. Editions online 2014 to 2018.

Online portal

Crime in Missouri dashboards (showmecrime.mo.gov/tops) and Crime in Missouri Data Tables and Reports

What changed

The SAC Crime in Missouri page offers only 2014-2018; ExecutiveSummary PDFs for 2012, 2013, 2019, and 2020 return 404. Later years live in the dashboards and Beyond 20/20 tables.

Links and years checked 2026-09-26.

• Crime in Missouri (ShowMeCrime)State · MO

  Missouri State Highway Patrol · Incidents, Arrests · dashboard, html · continuous

  MSHP state UCR/NIBRS repository; reporting has been mandatory since 2001.

• Missouri Judicial Report statistical supplementState · MO

  Missouri Office of State Courts Administrator · Courts · pdf · annual

  County and circuit: felony, misdemeanor, traffic, ordinance filed, disposed, pending. Site forbids scrapers; manual download or request only.

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