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Three Rivers

City in Live Oak County, 1,256 people.

Police

Sheriff in its county: Live Oak 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
1,256
Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

Three Rivers 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 Three Rivers Police Department, Three Rivers'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 Three Rivers Police Department, 2023 to 2025
Offense202320242025Per 100kTexas
Violent crime22Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.385
MurderToo few for a rate: the count is under 20.5.4
RapeToo few for a rate: the count is under 20.51
RobberyToo few for a rate: the count is under 20.62
Aggravated assault22Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.267
Property crime214Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.2,034
Burglary11Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.280
Larceny13Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.1,423
Motor vehicle theft1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.331
ArsonToo few for a rate: the count is under 20.8.6

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by Three Rivers Police Department, 2023 to 2025
Offense202320242025Per 100kTexas
All offenses outside the crime index181146372,845
Simple assault and intimidation952Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.1,164
Vandalism11Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.515
Fraud1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.298
Drug abuse violations72Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.596
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.11Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.103
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.17
Forgery and counterfeiting1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.58
Embezzlement1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.7.8

Offenses Three Rivers 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, 2023 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.