Ardmore

City in Carter County, 24,877 people.

Police

Ardmore Police DepartmentIncident detail since December 202025,148 served

Sheriff in its county: Carter 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

County: Carter County
People: 24,877; Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

Ardmore follows Oklahoma law on arrests, release, and courts; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.

Who decides release first: Before a person sees a judge, the jail may release on a bail schedule the district's presiding judge sets by order, and the sheriff may sign the release order where court rule allows. A judge sets or confirms bail at the first appearance or when charges are filed. Police and sheriffs may not release anyone arrested for domestic abuse, stalking, harassment, or a protective order violation until a judge sees them.
22 O.S. sec. 1105 22 O.S. sec. 1105.2 (in force until 2026-12-31)
Time to see a judge: A person arrested must be taken before a magistrate without unnecessary delay. Oklahoma statute sets no hour limit.
22 O.S. sec. 181
Money bail: Oklahoma allows money bail, and each judicial district may adopt a money bail schedule that it reviews every year. Pretrial bail is set as a dollar amount.
22 O.S. sec. 1105.2 (in force until 2026-12-31)

Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. Some of this is medium confidence and still being checked. SB 1618 (2026) rewrites 22 O.S. 1105.2 from 2027-01-01; recheck first_bail, money_bail, and pretrial_assessment then. Whether the Oklahoma County jail trust has been dissolved was not confirmed. Oklahoma's district court is a single general trial court; only municipal courts sit below it.

Crime

Offenses reported by Ardmore Police Department, Ardmore'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 Ardmore Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Per 100k	Oklahoma
Violent crime	169	246	311	286	266	1,024	426
Murder	3	5	5	2		Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	6.4
Rape	30	25	34	21	21	105	63
Robbery	12	12	10	6	7	38	39
Aggravated assault	124	204	262	257	238	870	318
Property crime	988	746	874	785	626	3,221	2,191
Burglary	229	180	190	107	138	676	468
Larceny	654	466	593	605	427	2,200	1,446
Motor vehicle theft	105	100	91	73	61	345	277
Arson	4	5	4	12	7	26	18

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by Ardmore Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Per 100k	Oklahoma
All offenses outside the crime index	888	897	1,074	1,119	989	3,981	3,337
Simple assault and intimidation	298	220	230	250	243	995	1,234
Vandalism	156	202	265	200	221	837	503
Fraud	107	112	109	106	107	434	417
Drug abuse violations	196	204	319	413	277	1,129	708
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.	38	46	60	60	58	210	134
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing	23	14	19	17	16	71	72
Forgery and counterfeiting	32	42	19	19	13	100	68
Embezzlement	15	26	13	13	11	63	45
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)	10	14	11	16	17	55	63
Other Group A offenses	13	17	29	25	26	88	84

Offenses Ardmore 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 Oklahoma'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. Oklahoma: 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.