Poteau
City in Le Flore County, 8,959 people.
Police
Sheriff in its county: Le Flore 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
- Le Flore County
- People
- 8,959
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Poteau 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 Poteau Police Department, Poteau'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 | 37 | 57 | 34 | 27 | 55 | 465 | 426 |
| Murder | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 6.4 | ||||
| Rape | 5 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 64 | 63 |
| Robbery | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 39 |
| Aggravated assault | 30 | 43 | 27 | 22 | 47 | 374 | 318 |
| Property crime | 338 | 343 | 342 | 275 | 193 | 3,300 | 2,191 |
| Burglary | 69 | 95 | 83 | 52 | 40 | 750 | 468 |
| Larceny | 245 | 206 | 224 | 214 | 145 | 2,288 | 1,446 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 24 | 42 | 35 | 9 | 8 | 261 | 277 |
| Arson | 4 | 3 | 7 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 18 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | Oklahoma |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 461 | 499 | 483 | 378 | 318 | 4,734 | 3,337 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 172 | 154 | 198 | 184 | 169 | 1,941 | 1,234 |
| Vandalism | 120 | 136 | 108 | 63 | 34 | 1,020 | 503 |
| Fraud | 63 | 87 | 71 | 36 | 36 | 648 | 417 |
| Drug abuse violations | 60 | 68 | 43 | 55 | 58 | 628 | 708 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 11 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 100 | 134 |
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 6 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 55 | 72 |
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 9 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 93 | 68 |
| Embezzlement | 3 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 62 | 45 |
| Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) | 8 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 91 | 63 |
| Other Group A offenses | 9 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 95 | 84 |
| Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total) | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 1.6 |
Offenses Poteau 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.