Olympia

City in Thurston County, 55,951 people.

Police

Olympia Police DepartmentIncident detail since August 201356,438 served

Sheriff in its county: Thurston 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: Thurston County
People: 55,951; Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

Olympia follows Washington law on arrests, release, and courts; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.

Who decides release first: A judge or court commissioner sets release at the preliminary appearance. Before that, a district or municipal court may adopt its own bail schedule that the jail applies; adopting one is optional and court by court.
CrRLJ 3.2 CrR 3.2.1 RCW 10.99.045 RCW 3.42.010
Time to see a judge: A judge must decide probable cause within 48 hours of an arrest, counting weekends and holidays. The person must then appear before the court by the close of business on the next court day.
CrR 3.2.1(a), (c), (d)
Money bail: Court rules presume release on personal recognizance except in capital cases. A court may require a bond only after finding a likely failure to appear or a danger, must use the least restrictive conditions, and must consider the person's financial resources when setting a bond.
CrR 3.2

Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. The pretrial section rests on a secondary summary. Which counties use commissioners for preliminary appearances was not checked.

Crime

Offenses reported by Olympia Police Department, Olympia'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 Olympia Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Per 100k	Washington
Violent crime	248	300	324	317	266	523	339
Murder	1	2	2	4		Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	4.2
Rape	34	36	33	37	45	66	40
Robbery	71	84	90	61	55	130	73
Aggravated assault	142	178	199	215	166	323	222
Property crime	2,146	2,447	2,195	1,895	1,472	3,647	2,753
Burglary	313	348	303	268	204	516	459
Larceny	1,550	1,734	1,585	1,416	1,159	2,673	1,799
Motor vehicle theft	283	365	307	211	109	458	495
Arson	8	12	11	8	11	18	17

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by Olympia Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Per 100k	Washington
All offenses outside the crime index	1,818	1,936	1,926	1,907	1,823	3,379	2,513
Simple assault and intimidation	612	605	647	619	662	1,129	795
Vandalism	820	813	759	651	445	1,253	928
Fraud	162	140	157	164	162	282	305
Drug abuse violations	59	180	171	281	369	381	184
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.	33	43	38	39	40	69	84
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing	29	61	32	27	34	66	82
Forgery and counterfeiting	50	35	24	39	27	63	43
Embezzlement	2	2	1			Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	2.9
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)	32	36	73	65	47	91	36
Other Group A offenses	19	21	24	22	37	44	49
Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total)			1			Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	0.7

Offenses Olympia 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 Washington'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. Washington: 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.