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Patrol

Oklahoma Cop Shooting Suspects Accidentally Confess On Camera

Video surveillance cameras captured three arrestees discussing their ambush of Oklahoma City PD's Katie Lawson in Spanish in an interrogation room, while being recorded by cameras and watched by a bilingual detective.

August 30, 2010

Patrol

Oklahoma City Officer Ambushed After DUI Stop

Lawson was driving her cruiser north on Miller Avenue following the stop, when a young Hispanic man walked toward her and opened fire. Several rounds struck the cruiser, penetrating the passenger-side door and hitting Lawson, who radioed dispatch that she had been hit, before exiting the vehicle and returning fire.

August 29, 2010

Patrol

Former Oklahoma Deputy Assaulted Three, Including Two Inmates With Ax Handle

In the first incident, which took place on 2005, Milner physically abused a truck driver following a traffic stop. In a second incident in 2007, Milner assaulted two inmates at the Choctaw County Jail with a large axe handle.

August 5, 2010

Patrol

15 Officers Named In Tulsa Police Corruption Case

Eight of the officers named are employed with the Tulsa Police Department and one is an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

June 19, 2010

Patrol

Ex-Oklahoma Trooper Reflects on McVeigh Arrest

Fifteen years after the bombing of the Murrah federal building by American militia sympathizers, Charlie Hanger recounts pulling over the yellow Mercury with a missing license plate.

April 18, 2010

Training

Texas Agencies Recruit Laid-Off Tulsa Officers

Representatives from five Texas law enforcement agencies headed to Tulsa to recruit officers who were among the 127 the Tulsa Police Department has laid off since last fall.

February 9, 2010

Patrol

Two Oklahoma Deputies Killed in Shootout

Two Seminole County, Okla., deputies were killed and a woman was wounded when a man opened fire while deputies were trying to serve an arrest warrant at a Seminole residence Sunday, authorities said.

July 26, 2009

Patrol

Oklahoma Trooper Suspended After Video Shows Fight with EMT

Oklahoma Highway Patrol officials said trooper Daniel Martin, whose May 24 scuffle with paramedic Maurice White Jr. was caught on tape, will be suspended for five days without pay.

July 22, 2009

Patrol

Police: Man Attacked for Bologna Sandwich

A man in Oklahoma City said he was attacked for his bologna and cheese sandwich. Police say 24-year-old Roger Hamilton told them he was sitting on a bus station bench Wednesday, about to put mayonnaise on his sandwich, when another man began staring at him.

June 17, 2009

Patrol

Shots Fired: Tulsa, Oklahoma 10/13/2002

Officer Darren Bristow of the Tulsa (Okla.) Police Department came close to avoiding the entire episode. But isn’t that usually the case? It’s the cop who stays an hour longer than he’d planned…It’s the patrolman who swaps shifts to get a day off…It’s the trooper who decides to make just one more t-stop before calling it a day who ends up having a really bad shift.

July 31, 2006

Patrol

Investigative Traffic Stops

Most traffic stops are routine. You see a moving or equipment violation, make the stop, and issue a citation or warning. Everything’s over in 10 minutes or so.

August 31, 2005

Technology

Police Inventors: Building a Better Mousetrap

It’s said that necessity is the mother of invention, and that’s clearly true for cops. Sent out on the streets with often outdated or unproven equipment, cops, like soldiers, have been forced to improvise, tweak, jury-rig, or just plain create what they need.

June 30, 2004