Swissvale
Borough in Allegheny County, 8,418 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
- County
- Allegheny County
- People
- 8,418
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Swissvale 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 Swissvale, Swissvale's own department. The county sheriff and state police may answer calls here too; their offenses are on their own pages.
The crime index
| Offense | 2023 | 2024 | 2025* | Per 100k | Pennsylvania |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 23 | 26 | 1 | 297 | 263 |
| Murder | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 6.1 | ||
| Rape | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 30 | |||
| Robbery | 11 | 6 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 58 | |
| Aggravated assault | 10 | 20 | 1 | 182 | 169 |
| Property crime | 142 | 161 | 2 | 1,839 | 1,521 |
| Burglary | 21 | 12 | 200 | 129 | |
| Larceny | 99 | 110 | 2 | 1,269 | 1,160 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 22 | 39 | 370 | 231 | |
| Arson | 3 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 12 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2023 | 2024 | 2025* | Per 100k | Pennsylvania |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 216 | 241 | 27 | 2,774 | 2,825 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 102 | 74 | 9 | 1,068 | 942 |
| Vandalism | 58 | 93 | 6 | 917 | 673 |
| Fraud | 15 | 23 | 2 | 231 | 371 |
| Drug abuse violations | 21 | 29 | 6 | 303 | 477 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 6 | 11 | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 173 |
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 7 | 9 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 30 |
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 2 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 33 | |
| Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 52 | ||
| Other Group A offenses | 4 | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 48 |
| Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total) | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 1.2 |
Offenses Swissvale 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 2024 added together, full years only, beside Pennsylvania's rate over the same years. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.
* 2025: 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.