Citizens Overseeing Police Oklahoma
How We are Viewed by The Nation
An article written in 2021 by Grace Hauck of USA Today describes the bleak scenario that currently is Oklahoma's police state! Unreported violence by police is at pandemic proportions. The study concluded "Oklahoma has the highest mortality rate of police violence of all 50 states ".
"About 84% of police killings in the state from 1980 to 2018 were unreported or misclassified in official government reports, according to the peer-reviewed study in The Lancet, one of the world's oldest and most renowned medical journals." - USA Today
Use of Force Statistics for Oklahoma
We are looking for volunteers who are willing to request records from police departments within Oklahoma for a project that will compare use of force records with the federal incident database. The objective of the project is to see how transparent our State's departments are with the FBI's voluntary reporting program.
