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Etna

Borough in Allegheny County, 3,364 people.

Police

Sheriffs and county police in its county: Allegheny County Police Department, Allegheny 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
3,364
Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

Etna follows Pennsylvania law on arrests, release, and courts; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.

Who decides release first

Outside Philadelphia, a magisterial district judge sets bail at the preliminary arraignment. In Philadelphia, an arraignment court magistrate appointed by the Municipal Court sets it; magistrates need not be lawyers if they complete a training program. Neither may set bail for murder or voluntary manslaughter; a Common Pleas judge does.

Pa.R.Crim.P. 51942 Pa.C.S. 1515(a)(4)42 Pa.C.S. 1123(a)(5)
Time to see a judge

A person arrested without a warrant must have a preliminary arraignment without unnecessary delay. The rule sets no hour limit. The U.S. Supreme Court's 48-hour rule for a probable cause finding applies as the federal floor.

Pa.R.Crim.P. 516(A)
Money bail

Money bail is allowed. The rules list five kinds of release, from release on recognizance to a money condition no larger than needed to ensure the person appears.

Pa.R.Crim.P. 524(C)

Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. The prison board statute covers counties of the third to fifth class and those that opt in; Philadelphia and Allegheny run jails under other arrangements not read here.

Crime

Offenses reported by Etna Police Department, Etna'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 Etna Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense2021*2022202320242025Per 100kPennsylvania
Violent crime42342Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.257
MurderToo few for a rate: the count is under 20.6.1
Rape1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.29
RobberyToo few for a rate: the count is under 20.58
Aggravated assault42332Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.164
Property crime19231519105081,449
Burglary4211Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.127
Larceny1415121894091,116
Motor vehicle theft541Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.206
ArsonToo few for a rate: the count is under 20.11

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by Etna Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense2021*2022202320242025Per 100kPennsylvania
All offenses outside the crime index50696753471,7892,746
Simple assault and intimidation3435283121872927
Vandalism942124167611
Fraud1462Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.390
Drug abuse violations42030316523471
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.452Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.164
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing2121Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.29
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.52
Other Group A offenses11Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.47

Offenses Etna 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, 2022 to 2025 added together, full years only, beside Pennsylvania's rate over the same years. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.

* 2021: 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. Pennsylvania: 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.