Tulsa
City in Tulsa County, Wagoner County, Osage County, 413,794 people.
Police
Sheriffs and county police in its counties: Wagoner County Sheriff's Office, Tulsa County Sheriff's Office, Osage 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
- 413,794
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Tulsa 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 Tulsa Police Department, Tulsa'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 | 4,549 | 3,917 | 3,827 | 3,909 | 3,428 | 957 | 426 |
| Murder | 60 | 59 | 35 | 38 | 27 | 11 | 6.4 |
| Rape | 409 | 418 | 467 | 460 | 482 | 109 | 63 |
| Robbery | 600 | 484 | 415 | 406 | 360 | 110 | 39 |
| Aggravated assault | 3,480 | 2,956 | 2,910 | 3,005 | 2,559 | 727 | 318 |
| Property crime | 20,320 | 17,699 | 16,314 | 15,138 | 14,223 | 4,078 | 2,191 |
| Burglary | 3,975 | 3,557 | 3,517 | 3,118 | 2,573 | 816 | 468 |
| Larceny | 12,049 | 10,961 | 10,426 | 10,009 | 9,988 | 2,604 | 1,446 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 4,296 | 3,181 | 2,371 | 2,011 | 1,662 | 659 | 277 |
| Arson | 103 | 57 | 44 | 54 | 9 | 13 | 18 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | Oklahoma |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 17,092 | 16,838 | 18,269 | 17,381 | 16,301 | 4,185 | 3,337 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 7,209 | 8,502 | 9,075 | 9,241 | 9,324 | 2,112 | 1,234 |
| Vandalism | 3,080 | 2,854 | 2,211 | 768 | 381 | 453 | 503 |
| Fraud | 2,697 | 2,488 | 2,394 | 2,511 | 2,387 | 608 | 417 |
| Drug abuse violations | 1,214 | 865 | 1,936 | 2,406 | 2,033 | 412 | 708 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 941 | 654 | 999 | 1,010 | 978 | 223 | 134 |
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 505 | 264 | 516 | 412 | 222 | 94 | 72 |
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 526 | 613 | 378 | 256 | 257 | 99 | 68 |
| Embezzlement | 375 | 122 | 182 | 145 | 129 | 46 | 45 |
| Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) | 232 | 257 | 234 | 219 | 177 | 55 | 63 |
| Prostitution and commercialized vice | 63 | 23 | 26 | 44 | 37 | 9.4 | 7.6 |
| Other Group A offenses | 250 | 196 | 318 | 369 | 376 | 74 | 84 |
| Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total) | 11 | 13 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 3.6 | 1.6 |
| Human trafficking (not in the total) | 10 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 1.9 | 0.9 |
Offenses Tulsa 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.