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North Fond du Lac

Village in Fond du Lac County, 5,392 people.

Police

Sheriff in its county: Fond du Lac 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
5,392
Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

North Fond du Lac 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 North Fond du Lac Police Department, North Fond du Lac'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 North Fond du Lac Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense20212022202320242025Per 100kWisconsin
Violent crime36161216199297
MurderToo few for a rate: the count is under 20.5
Rape441Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.40
Robbery1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.41
Aggravated assault32121016161212
Property crime36483731256651,285
Burglary4536Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.143
Larceny3040302619544937
Motor vehicle theft6422Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.206
Arson1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.7

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by North Fond du Lac Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense20212022202320242025Per 100kWisconsin
All offenses outside the crime index791101381391472,3012,474
Simple assault and intimidation1715252127394571
Vandalism2324242631481422
Fraud10181399222262
Drug abuse violations2041636973999834
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.11434Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.198
Forgery and counterfeiting22Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.37
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)15441Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.47
Other Group A offenses745528663
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)111Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.1.8

Offenses North Fond du Lac 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.