Sulphur
City in Murray County, 4,874 people.
Police
Sheriff in its county: Murray 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
- Murray County
- People
- 4,874
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Sulphur 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 Sulphur Police Department, Sulphur'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 | 18 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 242 | 426 |
| Murder | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 6.4 | |||||
| Rape | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 63 | ||||
| Robbery | 3 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 39 | |||
| Aggravated assault | 18 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 217 | 318 |
| Property crime | 89 | 68 | 63 | 71 | 66 | 1,462 | 2,191 |
| Burglary | 16 | 17 | 8 | 18 | 13 | 295 | 468 |
| Larceny | 63 | 47 | 44 | 42 | 46 | 991 | 1,446 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 10 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 176 | 277 |
| Arson | 2 | 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 | 172 | 235 | 145 | 120 | 114 | 3,218 | 3,337 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 49 | 60 | 59 | 57 | 33 | 1,056 | 1,234 |
| Vandalism | 23 | 22 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 373 | 503 |
| Fraud | 12 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 16 | 225 | 417 |
| Drug abuse violations | 69 | 132 | 52 | 27 | 40 | 1,310 | 708 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 10 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 102 | 134 |
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 72 |
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 3 | 2 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 68 | ||
| Embezzlement | 1 | 2 | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 45 | ||
| Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 63 | |
| Other Group A offenses | 2 | 3 | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 84 | ||
| Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total) | 3 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 1.6 |
Offenses Sulphur 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.