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Menomonee Falls

Village in Waukesha County, 39,539 people.

Police

Sheriff in its county: Waukesha 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
39,539
Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

Menomonee Falls 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 Menomonee Falls Police Department, Menomonee Falls'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 Menomonee Falls Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense20212022202320242025Per 100kWisconsin
Violent crime343338273785297
Murder11221Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.5
Rape791691640
Robbery1023461341
Aggravated assault162132152153212
Property crime4243753122341827681,285
Burglary201825221550143
Larceny355322262194156649937
Motor vehicle theft493525181169206
Arson11Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.7

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by Menomonee Falls Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense20212022202320242025Per 100kWisconsin
All offenses outside the crime index3774734524924631,1362,474
Simple assault and intimidation4157569275162571
Vandalism4646493727103422
Fraud7864505350148262
Drug abuse violations126204220222223501834
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.115029364988198
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing576451423
Forgery and counterfeiting1099832037
Embezzlement4013171494712
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)1314414112847
Prostitution and commercialized vice1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.4.9
Other Group A offenses791212102563
Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total)1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.1.4
Human trafficking (not in the total)1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.1.8

Offenses Menomonee Falls 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 Wisconsin'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. 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.