Murfreesboro
City in Rutherford County, 161,445 people.
Police
Sheriff in its county: Rutherford 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
- Rutherford County
- People
- 161,445
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Murfreesboro 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 Murfreesboro Police Department, Murfreesboro'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 | 621 | 781 | 791 | 732 | 690 | 438 | 610 |
| Murder | 7 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 5.1 | 8.8 |
| Rape | 137 | 121 | 121 | 97 | 91 | 69 | 41 |
| Robbery | 53 | 59 | 62 | 51 | 40 | 32 | 63 |
| Aggravated assault | 424 | 590 | 593 | 578 | 556 | 332 | 498 |
| Property crime | 3,483 | 3,414 | 3,949 | 3,477 | 2,693 | 2,060 | 2,131 |
| Burglary | 321 | 286 | 322 | 288 | 234 | 176 | 284 |
| Larceny | 2,873 | 2,783 | 3,223 | 2,850 | 2,237 | 1,691 | 1,510 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 289 | 345 | 404 | 339 | 222 | 194 | 337 |
| Arson | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 12 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | Tennessee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 7,589 | 8,390 | 8,271 | 8,055 | 8,312 | 4,916 | 4,023 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 3,215 | 3,675 | 3,577 | 3,727 | 4,244 | 2,232 | 1,439 |
| Vandalism | 819 | 848 | 937 | 748 | 694 | 490 | 603 |
| Fraud | 1,111 | 1,183 | 1,253 | 1,268 | 1,014 | 706 | 390 |
| Drug abuse violations | 1,846 | 1,971 | 1,702 | 1,520 | 1,537 | 1,038 | 1,125 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 167 | 220 | 191 | 176 | 194 | 115 | 218 |
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 71 | 56 | 67 | 71 | 67 | 40 | 32 |
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 90 | 97 | 105 | 84 | 78 | 55 | 69 |
| Embezzlement | 30 | 41 | 53 | 50 | 26 | 24 | 25 |
| Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) | 46 | 66 | 84 | 92 | 89 | 46 | 44 |
| Prostitution and commercialized vice | 14 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 6.8 | 4.8 |
| Gambling | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 1.3 | |||
| Other Group A offenses | 180 | 222 | 290 | 307 | 360 | 164 | 71 |
| Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 0.9 | |
| Human trafficking (not in the total) | 25 | 13 | 25 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 1.4 |
Offenses Murfreesboro 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.