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Bennington

Town in Bryan County, 329 people.

Police

Sheriff in its county: Bryan 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
329
Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

Bennington 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. 110522 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 Bennington Police Department, Bennington'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 Bennington Police Department, 2021, 2024, 2025
Offense202120242025Per 100kOklahoma
Violent crime142Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.426
MurderToo few for a rate: the count is under 20.6.3
Rape1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.63
Robbery1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.38
Aggravated assault122Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.319
Property crime273Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.2,143
Burglary32Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.462
Larceny241Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.1,413
Motor vehicle theftToo few for a rate: the count is under 20.267
ArsonToo few for a rate: the count is under 20.18

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by Bennington Police Department, 2021, 2024, 2025
Offense202120242025Per 100kOklahoma
All offenses outside the crime index185Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.3,309
Simple assault and intimidation31Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.1,242
Vandalism153Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.479
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.71

Offenses Bennington 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, 2024, 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.