Renton

City in King County, 105,317 people.

Police

Renton Police DepartmentIncident detail since January 2012105,251 served

Sheriff in its county: King 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: King County
People: 105,317; Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

Renton 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 Renton Police Department, Renton'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 Renton Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Per 100k	Washington
Violent crime	337	397	438	360	275	349	339
Murder	3	8	7	6	7	6	4.2
Rape	39	28	38	47	42	37	40
Robbery	99	141	146	96	76	108	73
Aggravated assault	196	220	247	211	150	198	222
Property crime	4,611	5,007	4,900	4,219	2,688	4,137	2,753
Burglary	499	633	625	448	248	474	459
Larceny	3,184	2,974	2,262	2,563	1,785	2,466	1,799
Motor vehicle theft	928	1,400	2,013	1,208	655	1,198	495
Arson	18	20	12	10	8	13	17

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by Renton Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Per 100k	Washington
All offenses outside the crime index	2,839	3,153	3,659	3,419	2,449	2,997	2,513
Simple assault and intimidation	578	608	651	669	558	592	795
Vandalism	1,711	1,964	2,391	2,032	1,320	1,819	928
Fraud	307	318	177	209	231	240	305
Drug abuse violations	30	20	183	238	117	114	184
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.	57	64	109	79	70	73	84
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing	55	50	40	42	30	42	82
Forgery and counterfeiting	39	55	29	48	43	41	43
Embezzlement		1		1		Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	2.9
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)	34	41	31	32	30	32	36
Prostitution and commercialized vice	2	1	1	2	3	Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	3.5
Other Group A offenses	26	31	47	67	47	42	49
Human trafficking (not in the total)	3		8	9	2	Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	1

Offenses Renton 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.