Mississippi
What Mississippi's records show, how much of the state the FBI's data covers, and where the state publishes its own.
How Mississippi handles a case
- Sets bail first
- Jailer or officer on the bail schedule, or a justice court or municipal judge
- 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
- None statewide
- Prosecutor
- District attorney, one per judicial district, elected
- Public defense
- Mixed
- Jails run by
- County sheriff
- Who decides release first
After a warrantless arrest, an officer may release a person on recognizance, and must release a person on a bond from the court rules' bail schedule unless the charge isn't bailable. Anyone not released goes before a judge, usually a justice court or municipal judge who may not be a lawyer.
Miss. R. Crim. P. 5.1, 8.2- Time to see a judge
A person not released must see a judge without unnecessary delay and within 48 hours of arrest. If no judge sees the person in time, the person must be released on the schedule's minimum bond unless the charge isn't bailable.
Miss. R. Crim. P. 5.1(b)(3)- Money bail
Courts set money bonds, and the court rules include a bail schedule for each level of court. When someone is released on the schedule's minimum, the prosecutor may ask the court to reconsider.
Miss. R. Crim. P. 5.1, 8.2
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
FBI data coverage
- Population covered
- 81%
- of Mississippi's people lived under an agency that reported to the FBI in 2025.
- Agencies on NIBRS
- 73%
- 231 of 314 agencies send incident detail. The rest send summary counts or nothing.
83 agencies not reporting through NIBRS
- Aberdeen Police DepartmentCity
- Baldwyn Police DepartmentCity
- Belmont Police DepartmentCity
- Belzoni Police DepartmentCity
- Benton County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Canton Police DepartmentCity
- Carthage Police DepartmentCity
- Clarke County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Coahoma Community CollegeUniversity or College
- Commercial Transportation Enforcement Division: HeadquartersOther State Agency
- Como Police DepartmentCity
- Crenshaw Police DepartmentCity
- Crystal Springs Police DepartmentCity
- Decatur Police DepartmentCity
- Department of Marine ResourcesOther State Agency
- Drew Police DepartmentCity
- Durant Police DepartmentCity
- Fayette Police DepartmentCity
- Flora Police DepartmentCity
- Franklin County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Gloster Police DepartmentCity
- Golden Police DepartmentCity
- Greenville Police DepartmentCity
- Greenwood Police DepartmentCity
- Hazlehurst Police DepartmentCity
- Hinds Community CollegeUniversity or College
- Houston Police DepartmentCity
- Humphreys County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Indianola Police DepartmentCity
- Inverness Police DepartmentCity
- Issaquena County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Itawamba Community CollegeUniversity or College
- Itawamba County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Itta Bena Police DepartmentCity
- Lawrence County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Leakesville Police DepartmentCity
- Leflore County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Leland Police DepartmentCity
- Lexington Police DepartmentCity
- Macon Police DepartmentCity
- Magnolia Police DepartmentCity
- Marks Police DepartmentCity
- Marshall County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- McLain Police DepartmentCity
- Mississippi Bureau of Investigation: HeadquartersOther State Agency
- Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College: Harrison County and AMTCUniversity or College
- Mississippi Highway Safety PatrolState Police
- Moorhead Police DepartmentCity
- Mound Bayou Police DepartmentCity
- Mount Olive Police DepartmentCity
- Natchez Police DepartmentCity
- New Augusta Police DepartmentCity
- Newton Police DepartmentCity
- Okolona Police DepartmentCity
- Pelahatchie Police DepartmentCity
- Perry County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Pickens Police DepartmentCity
- Quitman County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Ripley Police DepartmentCity
- Rolling Fork Police DepartmentCity
- Rosedale Police DepartmentCity
- Roxie Police DepartmentCity
- Ruleville Police DepartmentCity
- Saltillo Police DepartmentCity
- Scott County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Shaw Police DepartmentCity
- Shelby Police DepartmentCity
- Singing River Health SystemOther
- Stonewall Police DepartmentCity
- Summit Police DepartmentCity
- Sunflower Police DepartmentCity
- Tchula Police DepartmentCity
- Terry Police DepartmentCity
- Tippah County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Vaiden Police DepartmentCity
- Verona Police DepartmentCity
- Warren County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Washington County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Wilkinson County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Winona Police DepartmentCity
- Yalobusha County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Yazoo City Police DepartmentCity
- Yazoo County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
Counties and agencies: no data yet
Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, pulled 2026-09-26.
State crime reporting
- Program
- Mississippi Department of Public Safety, Criminal Information Center (Mississippi NIBRS)
- Incident reporting
- Mississippi Crime Insight (state-level NIBRS repository)
- Annual report
- None found (no annual state crime report)No annual report found online.
- Online portal
- Mississippi Crime Statistics, Theme Oriented Public Site (TOPS) / Crime InsightData 2016 to 2026.
- What changed
- State recognized as a UCR program around 2018; agencies required by law to report, with a compliance deadline of December 2025, so early years are partial.
Links and years checked 2026-09-26.
Mississippi sources
- Mississippi Crime StatisticsState · MS
Mississippi Department of Public Safety · Incidents, Arrests · dashboard · continuous
New state NIBRS repository: agencies were required by law in 2018 to report, with a compliance deadline of December 2025, so coverage is partial.
- Mississippi Judiciary annual reportState · MS
Mississippi Administrative Office of Courts · Courts · pdf · annual
Circuit criminal filed and closed statewide only; county tables only for county, drug, and youth courts. 1989-2025.
Plus 83 national sources, from the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Census Bureau, the courts, and others.