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Glassport

Borough in Allegheny County, 4,368 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
4,368
Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

Glassport 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 Glassport Police Department, Glassport'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 Glassport Police Department, 2023 to 2025
Offense2023*20242025Per 100kPennsylvania
Violent crime61610306243
MurderToo few for a rate: the count is under 20.4.8
Rape11Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.28
Robbery44Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.49
Aggravated assault5125Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.160
Property crime8264441,2701,420
Burglary765Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.114
Larceny7455371,0821,112
Motor vehicle theft132Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.194
Arson1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.11

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by Glassport Police Department, 2023 to 2025
Offense2023*20242025Per 100kPennsylvania
All offenses outside the crime index1771942144,7972,733
Simple assault and intimidation8078791,846941
Vandalism293824729580
Fraud18614235389
Drug abuse violations4151821,564495
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.21310270149
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing354Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.30
Forgery and counterfeiting11Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.30
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)11Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.49
Prostitution and commercialized vice1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.5.3
Other Group A offenses111Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.46

Offenses Glassport 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, 2024 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.

* 2023: 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.