Kentucky Arrest Records Search

How to Look Up Arrest Records in Kentucky

The Kentucky justice system maintains all criminal reports and provides them upon request to the general public. They offer them to government agencies, businesses, individuals and others for a fee of $25 per report. Their system contains millions of records including felonies, misdemeanors and citations. Only arrests that resulted in convictions will show up on these reports.

Victims & Offenders by Gender and Race

What Information You Can Find in a state Criminal Report?

Kentucky arrest records will show a lot of criminal history information like arrests, convictions, charges, sentencing, disposition, bail, bond, fees, and other fines paid. Also included will be the date and place of arrest, the officer’s name and badge number, arresting agency, booking details and any vehicles involved. General profile information such as name, phone, address, gender, race, height, weight, other physical description, mug shots and fingerprints will also be included.

Violent Crime Rates for the last 10 years

The crime rate has decreased over the past decade in Kentucky, going from 8,159 crimes in 2006 to 8,109 by 13% lower than it was back in 2006. The largest percentage of violent crimes falls into the Aggravated Assault category, with Revised Rape being the least popular crime in the state.

Kentucky Violent Crime Rate Change

Arrest Laws

A peace officer in Kentucky can arrest someone per an arrest warrant. They can also arrest someone without a warrant if a felony or misdemeanor is committed in their presence. They can arrest someone if they have probable cause that they are physically a danger to someone in their household or a sex offender. An officer can also arrest someone without a warrant in a hospital if they have violated various laws. Law officers in Kentucky can even arrest someone they suspect of violating parole or probation.

The Arrest Rate in Kentucky

In Kentucky, for 2017, 282,360 serious crimes were committed in the state. 58% of all homicides in the state were committed using a gun. 43% of all violent crimes resulted in arrests. For that year, there were 23,357 DUIs, and 107,736 were drug violations. There were a total of 504,580 arrests made in Kentucky for 2017. Approximately every 3 hours someone committed robbery and every 1.75 hours, someone committed a sex crime. Cars were stolen every 48 minutes.

State Offender and Victim Age Group Statistics

Most of the violent crime offenders in Kentucky were 20-29 and the largest percentage of violent crime victims were 20-29.

Crime Victim Demographics

Residence Home is the place where the majority of crimes in Kentucky were committed, in most of the crime cases the offender was a stranger.

Kentucky Arrest Records by Type of Crime

The popular arrests for 2017 in Kentucky was for All Other Offenses (except traffic) - 115,268, the same popularity of the arrest type was seen in Alabama, Alaska, and Arizona. The least popularity had Curfew and Loitering Law Violations arrests - with only 4 crimes a year.