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Leon Valley

City in Bexar County, 11,446 people.

Police

Sheriff in its county: Bexar 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
11,446
Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

Leon Valley 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 Leon Valley Police Department, Leon Valley'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 Leon Valley Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense20212022202320242025Per 100kTexas
Violent crime4468655542474411
Murder321Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.6.1
Rape497534853
Robbery1115810119567
Aggravated assault2642503928320285
Property crime6557357035775665,5922,123
Burglary11957474039522303
Larceny4445344894344314,0301,493
Motor vehicle theft92144167103961,040327
Arson21311Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.9.2

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by Leon Valley Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense20212022202320242025Per 100kTexas
All offenses outside the crime index5237498046206435,7702,904
Simple assault and intimidation1852342352362441,9601,172
Vandalism1632011601191111,303534
Fraud3940463650365312
Drug abuse violations841852721521901,526602
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.1928482717240109
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing11181366717
Forgery and counterfeiting263528291623264
Embezzlement12Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.8.6
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)45122Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.27
Gambling1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.1.9
Other Group A offenses2105554748

Offenses Leon Valley 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.