Nevada
What Nevada's records show, how much of the state the FBI's data covers, and where the state publishes its own.
How Nevada handles a case
- Sets bail first
- Justice of the peace or other judge at the pretrial release hearing
- Who that is
- A judge
- Release on a schedule
- In some counties
- Time to see a judge
- 48 hours
- Money bail
- Limited (2021)
- Risk assessment
- Nevada Pretrial Risk Assessment (statewide)
- Prosecutor
- District attorney, one per county, elected
- Public defense
- Mixed
- Jails run by
- County sheriff
- Who decides release first
A judge, usually a justice of the peace, decides release at a pretrial release hearing held within 48 hours of custody. Before that hearing, a sheriff or police chief may release people without a hearing where a court's administrative order allows it. For domestic battery, state law fixes the bail amount for anyone released after a 12-hour hold without seeing a judge.
NRS 178.484, 178.4847, 178.4849- Time to see a judge
A court must hold a pretrial release hearing within 48 hours after a person is taken into custody. Separately, if an arrested person has not seen a magistrate within 72 hours, not counting weekends and holidays, the magistrate must ask the prosecutor why and may release the person.
NRS 178.4849NRS 171.178(3)- Money bail
Money bail is allowed only as the least restrictive way to protect the community or secure court appearance. A prosecutor who asks for bail must prove by clear and convincing evidence that it is needed, and the court must state its findings on the record for anything beyond release on recognizance.
NRS 178.4851 (amended 2021)
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
FBI data coverage
- Population covered
- 99%
- of Nevada's people lived under an agency that reported to the FBI in 2025.
- Agencies on NIBRS
- 87%
- 63 of 72 agencies send incident detail. The rest send summary counts or nothing.
9 agencies not reporting through NIBRS
- Duckwater TribalTribal
- Ely Shoshone TribalTribal
- Esmeralda County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Las Vegas Municipal CourtOther
- Pershing County Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- South Fork Band TribalTribal
- Union Pacific RailroadOther
- Washoe TribalTribal
- Yerington Paiute TribalTribal
Counties and agencies: no data yet
Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, pulled 2026-09-26.
State crime reporting
- Program
- Nevada Department of Public Safety, Records, Communications and Compliance Division (state UCR program since July 1991)
- Incident reporting
- The state runs its own incident-based repository; its name is not confirmed.
- Annual report
- Crime in Nevada (recent editions titled Uniform Crime Reporting [year] Report)Latest edition: 2025. Editions online 1994 to 2025.
- Online portal
- Nevada Crime StatisticsData 2021 to 2026.
- What changed
- Title varies: Crime in Nevada (1994-2015, 2025 filename), Crime & Justice in Nevada (2002), Uniform Crime Reporting Report (about 2016-2024). Supplemental books for 2017-2019.
Links and years checked 2026-09-26.
Nevada sources
- Nevada Crime StatisticsState · NV
Nevada Department of Public Safety, Records Communications and Compliance Division · Incidents, Arrests · dashboard · continuous
State NIBRS repository public dashboard linked from rccd.nv.gov.
- Nevada Judiciary annual report appendixState · NV
Nevada Administrative Office of the Courts · Courts · pdf, dashboard · annual
District court by county, justice and municipal courts each: felony, gross misdemeanor, misdemeanor filings, dispositions, pending. FY2000-FY2025. Cloudflare blocks scripts; state library mirror epubs.nsla.nv.gov works.
Plus 83 national sources, from the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Census Bureau, the courts, and others.