VirginiaAgencies

La Crosse Police Department

City agency in Mecklenburg County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.

Reporting to the FBI

Population served
614 (FBI figure, 2025)
Incident reporting
Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since March 2001.
Months sent in 2025
1 of 12
FBI agency code
VA0580400

Source: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.

After an arrest

Who decides release first

A magistrate decides bail first. Magistrates are court officers, not judges, and need not be lawyers. The law presumes release unless the magistrate finds the person likely to flee or dangerous.

Va. Code 19.2-119Va. Code 19.2-120Va. Code 19.2-37
Time to see a judge

Police must bring a person arrested without a warrant "forthwith" before a magistrate. The law sets no number of hours.

Va. Code 19.2-82

Crime and arrests

No figures yet

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