New Hampshire
What New Hampshire's records show, how much of the state the FBI's data covers, and where the state publishes its own.
How New Hampshire handles a case
- Sets bail first
- Bail commissioner
- Who that is
- Not a judge
- Release on a schedule
- No
- Time to see a judge
- 36 hours
- Money bail
- Limited (2018)
- Risk assessment
- Some counties
- Prosecutor
- County attorney, one per county, elected
- Public defense
- Mixed
- Jails run by
- County jail authority
- Who decides release first
Before arraignment, a bail commissioner sets bail. The Circuit Court appoints commissioners from justices of the peace, and they need not be lawyers. People charged with serious violent crimes are held for a judge within 36 hours, and the police can't set bail.
RSA ch. 597- Time to see a judge
A person arrested must appear before a Circuit or Superior Court judge within 36 hours, not counting weekends and holidays.
RSA 594:20-a- Money bail
Money bail is allowed. Since 2018, a court may not set money bail that keeps a person in jail only because they can't pay, unless it finds after a hearing that no other condition will work.
RSA 597:2
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
FBI data coverage
- Population covered
- 99%
- of New Hampshire's people lived under an agency that reported to the FBI in 2025.
- Agencies on NIBRS
- 99%
- 210 of 211 agencies send incident detail. The rest send summary counts or nothing.
1 agency not reporting through NIBRS
- State PoliceState Police
Counties and agencies: no data yet
Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, pulled 2026-09-26.
State crime reporting
- Program
- New Hampshire State Police, Uniform Crime Report Unit
- Incident reporting
- Yes, NH collects NIBRS Group A and B data from 154 agencies.
- Annual report
- Annual crime reportNo annual report found online.
- Online portal
- New Hampshire Crime StatisticsData 2010 to 2026.
- What changed
- The current site offers only the Beyond 20/20 portal and no annual PDF. A 2016 NH crime PDF is archived in the Wayback Machine (https://www.nh.gov/safety/divisions/nhsp/jib/crimjustice/documents/2016-nh-crime.pdf).
Links and years checked 2026-09-26.
New Hampshire sources
New Hampshire State Police · Incidents, Arrests · dashboard, pdf · annual
NIBRS program covering about 154 agencies; Group A incidents and Group B arrests. Verified in a browser September 2026; returns 403 to scripts.
New Hampshire Administrative Office of the Courts · Courts · pdf · annual
Superior court criminal filings by county 2016-2025, counted by case; district division by location. Akamai blocks scripts.
Plus 83 national sources, from the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Census Bureau, the courts, and others.