Johnson City
City in Washington County, Carter County, Sullivan County, 72,222 people.
Police
Sheriffs and county police in its counties: Sullivan County Sheriff's Office, Washington County Sheriff's Office, Carter 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
- 72,222
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Johnson City follows Tennessee law on arrests, release, and courts; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.
- Who decides release first
A magistrate sets bail first. In many counties that is an appointed judicial commissioner who need not be a lawyer; in others it is a general sessions judge or, when no judge can come within three hours, a court clerk. A defendant can appeal a commissioner's decision to the court.
Tenn. Code Ann. 40-11-106Tenn. Code Ann. 40-1-111Tenn. Code Ann. 40-11-150- Time to see a judge
A person arrested must be taken "without unnecessary delay" before the nearest magistrate of the county. The rule sets no number of hours.
Tenn. R. Crim. P. 5(a)- Money bail
Magistrates and judges may set money bail, and the sheriff or a judicial commissioner accepts bonds from approved commercial bonding companies.
Tenn. Code Ann. 40-11-106
Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. Some of this is medium confidence and still being checked. trial_selection is "mixed" because Ballotpedia says trial judges run in partisan elections unless a county opts for nonpartisan ones; no statute was read for this. Which counties use judicial commissioners versus judges or clerks, and whether any county uses a misdemeanor bail schedule, was not confirmed.
Crime
Offenses reported by Johnson City Police Department, Johnson City'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 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | Tennessee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 259 | 275 | 294 | 325 | 308 | 405 | 610 |
| Murder | 6 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 5.8 | 8.8 |
| Rape | 36 | 58 | 54 | 64 | 56 | 74 | 41 |
| Robbery | 37 | 25 | 44 | 25 | 26 | 43 | 63 |
| Aggravated assault | 180 | 189 | 189 | 232 | 225 | 281 | 498 |
| Property crime | 2,239 | 2,476 | 2,069 | 1,748 | 1,582 | 2,801 | 2,131 |
| Burglary | 216 | 223 | 211 | 137 | 133 | 255 | 284 |
| Larceny | 1,798 | 2,062 | 1,683 | 1,481 | 1,356 | 2,321 | 1,510 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 225 | 191 | 175 | 130 | 93 | 225 | 337 |
| Arson | 12 | 18 | 15 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 12 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | Tennessee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 3,128 | 3,312 | 3,088 | 3,105 | 3,007 | 4,331 | 4,023 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 904 | 934 | 953 | 1,036 | 1,024 | 1,343 | 1,439 |
| Vandalism | 489 | 480 | 407 | 344 | 286 | 556 | 603 |
| Fraud | 369 | 479 | 383 | 353 | 374 | 542 | 390 |
| Drug abuse violations | 990 | 1,005 | 961 | 1,034 | 987 | 1,378 | 1,125 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 117 | 133 | 142 | 103 | 117 | 169 | 218 |
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 49 | 33 | 19 | 22 | 11 | 37 | 32 |
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 127 | 134 | 99 | 83 | 84 | 146 | 69 |
| Embezzlement | 21 | 34 | 31 | 16 | 22 | 34 | 25 |
| Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) | 35 | 42 | 47 | 49 | 41 | 59 | 44 |
| Prostitution and commercialized vice | 1 | 3 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 4.8 | |||
| Other Group A offenses | 27 | 37 | 46 | 62 | 61 | 65 | 71 |
| Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total) | 1 | 1 | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 0.9 | ||
| Human trafficking (not in the total) | 1 | 4 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 1.4 |
Offenses Johnson City 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, 2021 to 2025 added together, beside Tennessee's rate over the same years. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.
Source: FBI NIBRS national master files, each agency's offenses and the FBI's population for it. Tennessee: 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.