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Toppenish

City in Yakima County, 8,723 people.

Police

Sheriff in its county: Yakima County Sheriff's Office.

A department or FBI code is the place's own when its name is the place's and its FBI population fits the place's people (decisions city-or-town-is-its-police-department, left-out-code-is-its-place). Agencies: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.

Where it sits

People
8,723
Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

Toppenish 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 3.2CrR 3.2.1RCW 10.99.045RCW 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 Toppenish Police Department, Toppenish'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 Toppenish Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense20212022202320242025Per 100kWashington
Violent crime4876532740563339
Murder1281Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.4.2
Rape473455340
Robbery1313164411573
Aggravated assault3054261930367222
Property crime5856735173862415,5452,753
Burglary100125865648958459
Larceny4054423302621573,6841,799
Motor vehicle theft801061016836903495
Arson452464817

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by Toppenish Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense20212022202320242025Per 100kWashington
All offenses outside the crime index4815504342944645,1322,513
Simple assault and intimidation8397936088972795
Vandalism3223592221733223,227928
Fraud1428282013238305
Drug abuse violations1038321Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.184
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.24352713824784
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing161445710682
Forgery and counterfeiting85412Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.43
Embezzlement1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.2.9
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)1911426236
Prostitution and commercialized vice1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.3.5
Other Group A offenses33633Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.49

Offenses Toppenish 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.