Norman
City in Cleveland County, 129,672 people.
Police
Sheriff in its county: Cleveland 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
- Cleveland County
- People
- 129,672
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Norman 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 Norman Police Department, Norman'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 | 418 | 402 | 420 | 354 | 323 | 295 | 426 |
| Murder | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 6.4 |
| Rape | 105 | 85 | 68 | 60 | 65 | 59 | 63 |
| Robbery | 31 | 38 | 36 | 25 | 24 | 24 | 39 |
| Aggravated assault | 280 | 277 | 314 | 268 | 230 | 211 | 318 |
| Property crime | 3,901 | 3,684 | 3,093 | 3,023 | 2,444 | 2,488 | 2,191 |
| Burglary | 529 | 457 | 423 | 435 | 295 | 330 | 468 |
| Larceny | 2,854 | 2,852 | 2,317 | 2,286 | 1,930 | 1,886 | 1,446 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 518 | 375 | 353 | 302 | 219 | 272 | 277 |
| Arson | 6 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 4.9 | 18 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | Oklahoma |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 4,016 | 3,991 | 3,996 | 3,975 | 3,586 | 3,015 | 3,337 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 1,316 | 1,237 | 1,305 | 1,283 | 1,219 | 980 | 1,234 |
| Vandalism | 1,110 | 999 | 940 | 877 | 605 | 698 | 503 |
| Fraud | 748 | 730 | 709 | 606 | 565 | 517 | 417 |
| Drug abuse violations | 373 | 490 | 565 | 804 | 789 | 466 | 708 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 86 | 105 | 77 | 89 | 95 | 70 | 134 |
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 27 | 51 | 49 | 32 | 39 | 31 | 72 |
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 134 | 174 | 153 | 94 | 85 | 99 | 68 |
| Embezzlement | 25 | 42 | 33 | 14 | 22 | 21 | 45 |
| Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) | 103 | 91 | 87 | 100 | 69 | 69 | 63 |
| Prostitution and commercialized vice | 1 | 11 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 7.6 | |||
| Gambling | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 0.1 | ||||
| Other Group A offenses | 92 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 87 | 62 | 84 |
| Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total) | 4 | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 1.6 |
Offenses Norman 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.