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North College Hill

City in Hamilton County, 9,555 people.

Police

Sheriff in its county: Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.

A department is the place's own when its name is the place's and its FBI population fits the place's people (decision city-or-town-is-its-police-department). Agencies: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.

Where it sits

People
9,555
Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

North College Hill follows Ohio law on arrests, release, and courts; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.

Who decides release first

Every court must keep a bail schedule for misdemeanors so people can be released before they see a judge. When no judge, magistrate, or clerk is available, the sheriff, police, or jailer may set bail from that schedule. Only a judge or magistrate sets bail on a felony.

Ohio Rev. Code 2937.23Ohio Rev. Code 2937.011(I)
Time to see a judge

A person arrested and still held must see a judicial officer for a bail hearing by the second court day after arrest. After a warrantless arrest, a judge or magistrate must also review probable cause within 48 hours, but that review can happen on paper. If the person had no lawyer at the first hearing and is still held, a second bail hearing with appointed counsel follows two court days later.

Ohio Rev. Code 2937.011(J)Ohio Crim. R. 4(E)(2)
Money bail

Ohio courts may set money bail. The constitution tells courts to weigh public safety, the charge, and the person's record when setting the amount. State law requires the least restrictive conditions and any money terms to be the least costly that will bring the person back to court.

Ohio Const. art. I, sec. 9Ohio Rev. Code 2937.011(A)-(B)

Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. Crim.R. 46 was repealed July 1, 2023; bail rules now sit in R.C. 2937.011. Common pleas candidates may run in party primaries even though the general ballot is nonpartisan; not confirmed from statute text here. Magistrate lawyer requirement under Crim.R. 19 not read. That city prosecutors handle misdemeanors is general practice, not read from statute.

Crime

Offenses reported by North College Hill Police Department, North College Hill's own department. The county sheriff and state police may answer calls here too; their offenses are on their own pages.

The crime index

Crime index offenses reported by North College Hill Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense2021*2022*202320242025Per 100kOhio
Violent crime2010528664713303
Murder11Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.5.5
Rape34376Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.50
Robbery312171013849
Aggravated assault163376148515199
Property crime77822892982703,0251,620
Burglary95201925226218
Larceny65682152312032,2911,167
Motor vehicle theft39544842508236
Arson23Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.8.8

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by North College Hill Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense2021*2022*202320242025Per 100kOhio
All offenses outside the crime index881273314013323,7562,540
Simple assault and intimidation49661601691831,8071,118
Vandalism243993141881,137549
Fraud26322816268192
Drug abuse violations7139137102407
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.31172321215105
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing16171312742
Forgery and counterfeiting1531Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.28
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)11111Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.37
Prostitution and commercialized vice11Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.4.4
Other Group A offenses1851Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.51

Offenses North College Hill Police Department reported to the FBI in incident detail (NIBRS), each year, the second table by the arrest class each offense falls in. Per 100k: offenses per 100,000 people the department polices, 2023 to 2025 added together, full years only, beside Ohio's rate over the same years. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.

* 2021 to 2022: reported for part of the year only, so the count is short and the year is left out of the rate.

Source: FBI NIBRS national master files, each agency's offenses and the FBI's population for it. Ohio: the crime index: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, CrimeDB's chosen value per year (the state page's figures); outside it: FBI NIBRS, agencies that sent incident detail.