Morristown
City in Hamblen County, Jefferson County, 31,527 people.
Police
Sheriffs and county police in its counties: Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Hamblen 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
- Counties
- Hamblen CountyJefferson County
- People
- 31,527
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Morristown 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 Morristown Police Department, Morristown'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 | 229 | 225 | 217 | 254 | 175 | 689 | 610 |
| Murder | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 8.8 | |||
| Rape | 16 | 15 | 19 | 15 | 21 | 54 | 41 |
| Robbery | 19 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 41 | 63 |
| Aggravated assault | 193 | 196 | 186 | 227 | 145 | 593 | 498 |
| Property crime | 1,101 | 1,160 | 996 | 817 | 712 | 2,998 | 2,131 |
| Burglary | 112 | 136 | 125 | 82 | 64 | 325 | 284 |
| Larceny | 873 | 858 | 753 | 653 | 606 | 2,345 | 1,510 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 116 | 166 | 118 | 82 | 42 | 328 | 337 |
| Arson | 2 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 12 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | Tennessee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 2,921 | 2,763 | 2,938 | 2,423 | 2,034 | 8,193 | 4,023 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 889 | 861 | 955 | 859 | 702 | 2,672 | 1,439 |
| Vandalism | 312 | 335 | 317 | 309 | 224 | 938 | 603 |
| Fraud | 536 | 505 | 425 | 302 | 280 | 1,283 | 390 |
| Drug abuse violations | 860 | 780 | 971 | 720 | 655 | 2,497 | 1,125 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 107 | 77 | 79 | 62 | 45 | 232 | 218 |
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 20 | 11 | 16 | 4 | 10 | 38 | 32 |
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 75 | 64 | 50 | 56 | 46 | 182 | 69 |
| Embezzlement | 48 | 41 | 31 | 24 | 9 | 96 | 25 |
| Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) | 24 | 23 | 28 | 23 | 15 | 71 | 44 |
| Prostitution and commercialized vice | 1 | 4 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 4.8 | |||
| Other Group A offenses | 49 | 66 | 66 | 64 | 44 | 181 | 71 |
| Human trafficking (not in the total) | 7 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 1.4 |
Offenses Morristown 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.