Lawton
City in Comanche County, 90,595 people.
Police
Sheriff in its county: Comanche County Sheriff's Office.
A department or FBI code is the place's own when its name is the place's and its FBI population fits the place's people (decisions city-or-town-is-its-police-department, left-out-code-is-its-place). Agencies: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.
Where it sits
- County
- Comanche County
- People
- 90,595
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Lawton 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 Lawton Police Department, Lawton's own department. The county sheriff and state police may answer calls here too; their offenses are on their own pages.
The crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | Oklahoma |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 610 | 783 | 724 | 751 | 684 | 778 | 426 |
| Murder | 11 | 22 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 6.4 |
| Rape | 74 | 116 | 135 | 139 | 121 | 128 | 63 |
| Robbery | 45 | 54 | 64 | 65 | 55 | 62 | 39 |
| Aggravated assault | 480 | 591 | 515 | 538 | 505 | 576 | 318 |
| Property crime | 1,562 | 1,982 | 2,348 | 2,482 | 2,126 | 2,300 | 2,191 |
| Burglary | 699 | 897 | 832 | 854 | 733 | 879 | 468 |
| Larceny | 623 | 841 | 1,290 | 1,407 | 1,185 | 1,171 | 1,446 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 240 | 244 | 226 | 221 | 208 | 249 | 277 |
| Arson | 44 | 57 | 43 | 38 | 18 | 44 | 18 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | Oklahoma |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 2,587 | 2,854 | 3,625 | 3,657 | 4,050 | 3,673 | 3,337 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 1,244 | 1,263 | 1,561 | 1,683 | 1,875 | 1,670 | 1,234 |
| Vandalism | 273 | 337 | 400 | 376 | 556 | 425 | 503 |
| Fraud | 229 | 285 | 475 | 465 | 472 | 422 | 417 |
| Drug abuse violations | 457 | 575 | 749 | 749 | 766 | 722 | 708 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 125 | 127 | 139 | 120 | 151 | 145 | 134 |
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 31 | 33 | 47 | 45 | 50 | 45 | 72 |
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 79 | 59 | 60 | 51 | 45 | 64 | 68 |
| Embezzlement | 39 | 42 | 46 | 25 | 16 | 37 | 45 |
| Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) | 66 | 36 | 33 | 54 | 51 | 53 | 63 |
| Prostitution and commercialized vice | 13 | 19 | 36 | 24 | 2 | 21 | 7.6 |
| Other Group A offenses | 31 | 78 | 79 | 65 | 66 | 70 | 84 |
| Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total) | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 1.6 |
Offenses Lawton 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.