Oklahoma City
City in Oklahoma County, Canadian County, Cleveland County, 697,125 people.
Police
Sheriffs and county police in its counties: Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office, Cleveland County Sheriff's Office, Canadian 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
- 697,125
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Oklahoma City 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 Oklahoma City Police Department, Oklahoma City'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 | 4,403 | 4,570 | 4,630 | 4,908 | 4,949 | 671 | 426 |
| Murder | 83 | 71 | 66 | 76 | 68 | 10 | 6.4 |
| Rape | 591 | 562 | 550 | 575 | 538 | 81 | 63 |
| Robbery | 655 | 654 | 631 | 718 | 589 | 93 | 39 |
| Aggravated assault | 3,074 | 3,283 | 3,383 | 3,539 | 3,754 | 487 | 318 |
| Property crime | 24,032 | 21,567 | 21,010 | 20,837 | 19,132 | 3,050 | 2,191 |
| Burglary | 4,387 | 3,815 | 3,876 | 3,959 | 3,602 | 562 | 468 |
| Larceny | 16,123 | 14,761 | 14,246 | 14,274 | 13,313 | 2,081 | 1,446 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 3,522 | 2,991 | 2,888 | 2,604 | 2,217 | 407 | 277 |
| Arson | 114 | 130 | 123 | 121 | 137 | 18 | 18 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | Oklahoma |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 23,961 | 24,992 | 25,719 | 28,600 | 28,628 | 3,775 | 3,337 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 6,591 | 7,095 | 7,795 | 9,538 | 10,214 | 1,180 | 1,234 |
| Vandalism | 6,705 | 6,309 | 6,652 | 6,191 | 5,541 | 899 | 503 |
| Fraud | 4,117 | 4,503 | 4,287 | 4,877 | 4,777 | 646 | 417 |
| Drug abuse violations | 2,211 | 2,352 | 2,594 | 3,329 | 3,712 | 406 | 708 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 1,003 | 1,198 | 1,076 | 1,262 | 1,235 | 165 | 134 |
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 361 | 357 | 410 | 608 | 535 | 65 | 72 |
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 789 | 772 | 611 | 496 | 528 | 91 | 68 |
| Embezzlement | 934 | 899 | 834 | 756 | 616 | 116 | 45 |
| Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) | 411 | 426 | 431 | 454 | 465 | 63 | 63 |
| Prostitution and commercialized vice | 116 | 135 | 243 | 279 | 190 | 28 | 7.6 |
| Gambling | 2 | 4 | 8 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 0.1 | ||
| Other Group A offenses | 723 | 944 | 782 | 802 | 815 | 116 | 84 |
| Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total) | 15 | 12 | 6 | 14 | 12 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
| Human trafficking (not in the total) | 15 | 3 | 12 | 22 | 19 | 2 | 0.9 |
Offenses Oklahoma City 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.