Launching in the next days

TexasPlaces

Jacinto City

City in Harris County, 9,432 people.

Police

Sheriff in its county: Harris 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
9,432
Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

Jacinto City follows Texas law on arrests, release, and courts; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.

Who decides release first

A magistrate sets bail first, at the hearing that must follow arrest. Magistrates include judges of every level, justices of the peace, and, in some counties, appointed criminal law magistrates. In misdemeanors, a sheriff, officer, or licensed jailer may take bail, and many counties use bond schedules signed by judges.

Tex. Code Crim. Proc. arts. 17.027, 17.20 to 17.22Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 15.17
Time to see a judge

A person arrested must be taken before a magistrate without unnecessary delay and no later than 48 hours after arrest. The magistrate gives the warnings, sets bail, and can appoint a lawyer. The hearing may be held by video.

Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 15.17(a)
Money bail

Texas allows money bail. Since voters approved Proposition 3 in November 2025, a judge must deny bail for murder, aggravated assault, aggravated robbery, aggravated sexual assault, and several other felonies when the state proves flight risk or danger at a hearing, and must explain in writing any grant of bail on those charges.

Tex. Const. art. I, secs. 11 to 11dTex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 17.15

Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. Prop 3 (2025) changed when bail must be denied, not whether money bail exists. Appointed criminal law magistrates exist only in counties with an enabling section in Gov't Code ch. 54, such as Harris, Dallas, Bexar, and Travis. Counts of public defender offices change often; check TIDC before quoting a number.

Crime

Offenses reported by Jacinto City Police Department, Jacinto 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

Crime index offenses reported by Jacinto City Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense20212022202320242025Per 100kTexas
Violent crime16741111104411
Murder131Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.6.1
Rape21Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.53
Robbery82132Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.67
Aggravated assault5535753285
Property crime2553352672222482,8112,123
Burglary271781213163303
Larceny1792791921631972,1391,493
Motor vehicle theft4939674738508327
Arson1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.9.2

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by Jacinto City Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense20212022202320242025Per 100kTexas
All offenses outside the crime index2232142031801662,0892,904
Simple assault and intimidation63757065867601,172
Vandalism5767555938585534
Fraud4016252130280312
Drug abuse violations413129227275602
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.14191383121109
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.17
Forgery and counterfeiting94Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.64
Embezzlement1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.8.6
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)53112Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.27
Other Group A offenses221Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.48

Offenses Jacinto 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 Texas'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. Texas: 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.