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Lake Hallie

Village in Chippewa County, Eau Claire County, 7,285 people.

Police

Sheriffs and county police in its counties: Chippewa County Sheriff's Office, Eau Claire 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
7,285
Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

Lake Hallie follows Wisconsin law on arrests, release, and courts; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.

Who decides release first

For most misdemeanors, a police officer or the jail can take cash bail under the statewide misdemeanor bail schedule. For felonies, a circuit court commissioner or circuit judge sets bail at the initial appearance. Wisconsin bars paid bail bondsmen, so sureties must be unpaid people.

Wis. Stat. 969.07Wis. Stat. 969.065Wis. Stat. 969.12Wis. Stat. 757.69(1)(b)Wis. Stat. 968.075(2m), (5)
Time to see a judge

A person who is arrested must be taken before a judge within a reasonable time in the county where the offense is charged. Wisconsin law sets no number of hours.

Wis. Stat. 970.01(1)
Money bail

Wisconsin courts may set cash bail. A surety must be a state resident and an unpaid natural person, so commercial bail bonds are not allowed.

Wis. Stat. 969.12

Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. Municipal courts are left out of limited_courts because they hear only ordinance forfeiture cases. wispd.org returned errors, so the defense section rests on statute. Whether municipal judges must be lawyers was not checked; it doesn't affect criminal cases.

Crime

Offenses reported by Lake Hallie Police Department, Lake Hallie'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 Lake Hallie Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense20212022202320242025*Per 100kWisconsin
Violent crime811181410177311
Murder1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.5.3
Rape2111Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.42
Robbery1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.43
Aggravated assault61017138159221
Property crime921002764769811,354
Burglary5222Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.154
Larceny7894245473866976
Motor vehicle theft9418376224
Arson1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.7.5

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by Lake Hallie Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense20212022202320242025*Per 100kWisconsin
All offenses outside the crime index167192145104802,1072,522
Simple assault and intimidation4535474633599567
Vandalism131512114177440
Fraud151324236260269
Drug abuse violations77111481633873844
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.46311Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.209
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing5312Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.24
Forgery and counterfeiting32421Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.39
Embezzlement1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.12
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)4321Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.49
Other Group A offenses13431Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.63

Offenses Lake Hallie 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 2024 added together, full years only, beside Wisconsin's rate over the same years. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.

* 2025: reported for part of the year only, so the count is short and the year is left out of the rate.

Source: FBI NIBRS national master files, each agency's offenses and the FBI's population for it. Wisconsin: 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.