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Tulsa law enforcement grapples with one motor vehicle theft per day in 2020

Published 01/30/23

Law enforcement officials in Tulsa dealt with one motor vehicle theft per day in 2020, according to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

There were 190 motor vehicle thefts in total in 2020.

Simple assault was the most popular crime in Tulsa with 814 offenses throughout 2020.

Officers in Tulsa were involved in 3,402 offenses throughout the year.

The NIBRS was designed to provide detail and context around crime stats. Under the previous system, only the most serious crime related to an incident would be logged. If an incident involved a homicide as well as aggravated assault and theft, only a homicide would be recorded in criminal statistics.

It is used by law enforcement at all levels, from local to federal. Due to logistical and technological challenges, not every enforcement authority has signed up for NIBRS and stats might not reflect a complete picture of crimes which occurred.

Crimes in Tulsa in 2020

Type of CrimeNumber of offenses
Acts of damage or vandalism286
Aggravated assaults163
Animal cruelties3
Arsons10
Assistings or promotings prostitution offences0
Bettings and wagerings violations0
Briberies0
Burglaries, breaking and entering crimes294
Commercial sex acts0
Counterfeiting and forgery crimes37
Credit card and atm frauds16
Drug and narcotic violations207
Drug equipment violations129
Embezzlements6
Extortions and blackmail offences4
False impersonations38
Fondling offences34
Gambling equipment violations0
Hackings and computer invasions0
Identity thefts0
Incest crimes0
Intimidations167
Involuntary servitudes0
Justifiable homicides0
Kidnappings and abductions8
Larcenies220
Motor vehicle thefts190
Murders and non-negligent manslaughters0
Negligent manslaughters0
Obtaining property by false pretenses38
Operating, promoting and assisting gambling offences0
Pocket picking offences2
Pornography and obscene materials violations1
Prostitution offences0
Purchasing prostitution0
Purse snatchings0
Rapes15
Robberies22
Shopliftings61
Simple assaults814
Sodomies3
Sports tamperings0
Statutory rapes0
Stolen property offenses313
Thefts from building48
Thefts from coin operated machine or device2
Thefts from motor vehicle136
Thefts of motor vehicle parts or accessories23
Weapon law violations106
Welfare frauds0
Wire frauds3

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