Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Little Rock, Arkansas, in Pulaski County, has about 205,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Pulaski County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Little Rock public records, Pulaski County arrest records, Arkansas arrest records and Arkansas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Little Rock
The FBI lists Little Rock with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Little Rock Police Department. It reported 9,841 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,472 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Pulaski County: the State Park at Pinnacle Mountain State Park, Arkansas State Hospital, the State Park at Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism, the Camp Robinson Police Department and three more (state agency); the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the University of Arkansas at Medical Sciences and the University of Arkansas at Pulaski Technical College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Little Rock Reports
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Little Rock: 9,841 for 2025, 8,949 for 2024, 7,336 for 2023, 7,129 for 2022, 6,770 for 2021 and 7,539 for 2020.
Little Rock's 9,841 arrests in 2025 were up 10 percent from 8,949 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Little Rock reported 5,920 arrests, against 5,794 in the same months of 2025.
Across Pulaski County, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 19,562 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Little Rock Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Little Rock and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 1,270 people, up from about 1,170 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 1,210 beds, and it ran at 102 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office at pcso.org (page title: Pulaski County Sheriff's Office), phone (501) 340-6600, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Arkansas Division of Correction, whose inmate locator is at doc.arkansas.gov/correction/online-services.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Little Rock
For Little Rock the place to look is CourtConnect, the Arkansas Judiciary's free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed.
Arkansas is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the state runs an online name-based background check open to the public, through the Arkansas State Police. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Little Rock
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 3 working days when the record is not immediately available, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.
- An arrest by the Little Rock police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at littlerock.gov/residents/police-department/professional-standards/f... (page title: Freedom of Information Act Request | City of Little Rock), Monday to Friday, 8:00am - 4:00pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (501) 340-6600.
- Your own statewide record: a request to the Arkansas State Police Identification Bureau.
The Pulaski County guide covers every agency in the county: Pulaski County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Little Rock each year?
Little Rock reported 9,841 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Little Rock?
Ask the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office at (501) 340-6600; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at pcso.org.
Where are people arrested in Little Rock booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Little Rock?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Arkansas State Police: the state runs an online name-based background check open to the public. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Little Rock?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Little Rock police for its own arrests, the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 3 working days when the record is not immediately available.
Is this the official Little Rock website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.