Midwest City’s reported crime profile includes both recent Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation totals and a separate 2015 police-department workload study. The latest reported total was 3,543 crimes in 2024, when the agency population used for the rate was 57,961 and the total-crime rate was 61.13 per 1,000 residents. The older study shows how calls for service, patrol geography, response travel, and investigative work shaped police demand during calendar year 2015.
Contents
- Recent reported crime totals and rates
- How the main crime groups changed
- Monthly police calls for service
- Most common call categories
- Patrol workload measures
- Geographic and response patterns
- Historical crime and investigative workload
Recent reported crime totals and rates
The Crime in Oklahoma 2024 report lists Midwest City’s agency population, total reported crimes, and total-crime rate for 2022, 2023, and 2024. These figures describe reported crime for the agency and year shown; they are not a forecast and do not substitute for a neighborhood-level measure.
In 2024, the department reported a population of 57,961 and 3,543 total crimes. The total-crime rate was 61.13 per 1,000 residents. In 2023, the reported population was 57,696, with 3,638 total crimes and a rate of 63.05 per 1,000 residents. In 2022, the reported population was 57,826, with 3,652 total crimes and a rate of 63.15 per 1,000 residents. The agency population used for the 2024 rate was therefore 265 higher than the 2023 figure.
The 2024 total was 95 crimes below the 2023 total. The 2024 rate was 1.92 points lower per 1,000 residents than the 2023 rate. The 2024 property-crime count was 148 offenses lower than the 2023 count, making property crime the largest contributor to the change in the reported total.
| Year | Agency population | Total crimes | Total-crime rate per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 57,826 | 3,652 | 63.15 |
| 2023 | 57,696 | 3,638 | 63.05 |
| 2024 | 57,961 | 3,543 | 61.13 |
The three-year series shows a reported total above 3,500 in each year. It also shows the rate moving from 63.15 in 2022 to 63.05 in 2023 and 61.13 in 2024. Because the population values vary by year, the rate provides a different view from the raw count. Both measures should be read with the corresponding year and agency population.
How the main crime groups changed
The OSBI report groups Midwest City’s 2024 crimes into crimes against persons, property, and society. Crimes against persons totaled 813, crimes against property totaled 2,055, and crimes against society totaled 675. Together, those three reported group counts account for the 3,543 total crimes.
The same categories in 2023 were 886 crimes against persons, 2,203 crimes against property, and 549 crimes against society. In 2022, the counts were 811 against persons, 2,255 against property, and 586 against society. The category pattern is consistent across the three years: property crime is the largest listed group, followed by crimes against persons and crimes against society in varying order.
| Crime group | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crimes against persons | 811 | 886 | 813 |
| Crimes against property | 2,255 | 2,203 | 2,055 |
| Crimes against society | 586 | 549 | 675 |
From 2023 to 2024, crimes against persons decreased from 886 to 813, while property crime decreased from 2,203 to 2,055. Crimes against society increased from 549 to 675. The 2024 figures therefore combine lower person and property counts with a higher society count. The report labels the data by year; it does not establish why any category changed.
Monthly police calls for service
The Midwest City Police Department study examined a filtered set of 24,756 community-generated calls for service during calendar year 2015. These call figures are not the same measurement as the OSBI reported-crime totals from 2022–2024. A call can represent a request for police service without being a reported crime in the OSBI categories.
Monthly call volume was lowest in February, with 1,617 calls, and highest in July, with 2,341. August was nearly as high at 2,340. January had 2,290 calls, June had 2,238, and May had 2,198. September recorded 2,146 calls, October 2,064, April 1,960, December 1,892, November 1,842, and March 1,828.
The monthly sequence in the study was:
- January: 2,290 calls
- February: 1,617 calls
- March: 1,828 calls
- April: 1,960 calls
- May: 2,198 calls
- June: 2,238 calls
- July: 2,341 calls
- August: 2,340 calls
- September: 2,146 calls
- October: 2,064 calls
- November: 1,842 calls
- December: 1,892 calls
The study’s annual filtered total was 24,756 community-generated calls. The monthly figures show a broad rise from February into midsummer, followed by lower counts in September through December, although December was higher than November. These are observations from the 2015 analysis, not a current seasonal forecast.
Most common call categories
The 2015 study also listed individual call categories. Alarm calls were the most common listed category, with 2,855 calls. CKS calls totaled 2,779. The source preserves the category label “CKS”; the supplied report data here does not define that abbreviation, so it is best treated as a reported dispatch label rather than expanded into an unsupported meaning.
Other frequently listed categories included 1,141 disturbance-IP calls, 1,033 accident-no-injury calls, 959 larceny-petit calls, and 918 welfare-check calls. Traffic-complaint calls totaled 868, mental calls totaled 788, harassment calls totaled 688, and domestic-IP calls totaled 649.
| Listed category | Calls in 2015 |
|---|---|
| Alarm | 2,855 |
| CKS | 2,779 |
| Disturbance-IP | 1,141 |
| Accident-no-injury | 1,033 |
| Larceny-petit | 959 |
| Welfare-check | 918 |
| Traffic-complaint | 868 |
| Mental | 788 |
| Harassment | 688 |
| Domestic-IP | 649 |
These categories describe demand reaching the police department in the 2015 study. They should not be read as a ranking of all crimes in 2024, because the categories, period, and measurement system differ from the OSBI annual crime report. In particular, welfare checks, traffic complaints, and alarms are service-call types, while the OSBI figures are reported-crime group totals.
Patrol workload measures
The department study modeled the time and supporting work associated with a community-generated call. Average primary-unit handling time was 33.6 minutes per call in 2015. The department averaged 0.8 backup units per call, and average backup-unit handling time was 37.9 minutes per responding backup unit.
The workload model estimated 0.33 reports written per call for service, with 45 minutes per written report. It estimated 0.10 jail transports or bookings per call, with 60 minutes per jail transport or booking. The combined workload was 85.7 minutes per call, and the study estimated approximately 35,361 total patrol-workload hours in 2015.
Those measures describe workload rather than crime severity. A single call may involve a primary unit, backup, documentation, or a transport, while another call may require less of one or more of those activities. The 85.7-minute combined measure is the study’s model for the average workload associated with the filtered call set, not a response-time guarantee for residents.
Geographic and response patterns
The 2015 study assigned most calls to patrol areas A, B, and D, with a separate unknown-or-outside-area grouping. Patrol area A handled 9,482 calls, or 38% of the 2015 total. Area D handled 7,696 calls, or 31%, and area B handled 6,143 calls, or 25%. Unknown or outside-area calls totaled 1,435, or 6%.
| Patrol grouping | Calls | Share of 2015 total |
|---|---|---|
| Area A | 9,482 | 38% |
| Area B | 6,143 | 25% |
| Area D | 7,696 | 31% |
| Unknown or outside area | 1,435 | 6% |
The study reported average patrol-unit travel time of 6.3 minutes to calls for service. Its time-of-day analysis found that Saturday call volume stayed elevated until nearly 1:00 a.m., while peaks on other days declined after roughly 9:00–11:00 p.m. These patterns can help describe when and where demand was concentrated in 2015, but they do not establish current response times or current patrol-area conditions.
Historical crime and investigative workload
For the 2011–2015 period, the city study reported that violent Part I crime decreased 42% and property Part I crime decreased 10%. “Part I” is the historical classification used in that study. These percentages should remain tied to the study’s 2011–2015 period and should not be presented as a continuation of the 2022–2024 OSBI series.
The department made around 3,500 arrests in 2015. The study also reported monthly investigative caseload measures: Detective 1 averaged 8.8 cases per month, while Detective 2 averaged 6.3 cases per month. Those figures describe the detective workload measures reported in the study and do not identify the type or outcome of each case.
Taken together, the available measures cover different parts of public-safety activity: annual reported crime, community-generated calls, dispatch categories, patrol workload, geographic distribution, and investigative caseload. The measurement period matters throughout. The most recent annual crime figures here are for 2024, while the detailed call, patrol, and detective measures are from 2015.