Petersburg
Town in Lincoln County, Marshall County, 508 people.
Police
Sheriffs and county police in its counties: Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, Marshall 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
- Lincoln CountyMarshall County
- People
- 508
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Petersburg 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 Petersburg, Petersburg'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 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | |||||
| Murder | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | |||||
| Rape | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | |||||
| Robbery | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | |||||
| Aggravated assault | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | |||||
| Property crime | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. |
| Burglary | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | ||||
| Larceny | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. |
| Motor vehicle theft | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | |||
| Arson | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021* | 2022* | 2023* | 2024* | 2025* | Per 100k | Tennessee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 2 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | |
| Vandalism | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | |
| Fraud | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | |||
| Drug abuse violations | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | ||||
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. |
Offenses Petersburg reported to the FBI in incident detail (NIBRS), each year, the second table by the arrest class each offense falls in. It reported no full year, so there is no rate. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.
* 2021 to 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. 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.