More violent crimes were reported in Oklahoma during 2005, a report released Monday by the FBI shows.
Violent Crime on Rise
Violent crimes in Tulsa were up by 6.5 percent, while Oklahoma City saw a 5 percent jump in the crimes, and the number of reported violent crimes in Norman increased by 20 percent compared with 2004.

For the three cities combined, there were 9,700 victims of violent crime that year, the report shows.

In Oklahoma City, increases were seen in murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults.

Oklahoma City Police Chief Bill Citty said the increase in murders -- 39 to 54 -- was not surprising, considering the low number in 2004.

BUT THAT MAKES EVERY THING OK

"That was not a normal homicide rate," Citty said. "We had a few gang-related homicides last year and ones where multiple people were killed at one time. That helps to raise the rate."

I'M SO GLAD HE HAS THE ANSWER TO IT
NOTE THE GANG RELATED HOMICIDES. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY GET TIRED OF SHOOTING EACH OTHER OR SOMEONE NOT INVOLVED GETS IN THE PATH OF GUN FIRE. BUT I GUESS BECAUSE THEY ONLY HAVE TAKEN OVER SMALL PARTS OF THE CITY THAT'S BEEN FACTORED IN .
DO YOU THINK THIS HAS SOME THING TO DO WITH THE FACT THEIR AFRAID TO COME OUT OF THEIR HOMES
OR WHY A WOMEN JUST MISSED GETTING SHOOT FROM A DRIVE BY WHILE IN HER HOME

A Memorial Day 2005 quadruple homicide was the largest in the city since the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.

ITS NICE TO HAVE TO HAVE A RECORD

Citty said 50 killings a year is typical.

Citty said gang activity is driving a lot of the instances of assault and drive-by shootings. He said there were 90 drive-by shootings in 2000 and 260 in 2005.
THERE HAVE BEEN 6 IN THE NEWS IN AND AROUND OKLAHOMA CITY IN THE LAST WEEK WITH SHOOTS FIRED

Tulsa logged 4,995 violent crimes in 2005, which was the most in the state, the report stated. Tulsa police officer Scott Walton said the department is not focusing on a gang-specific problem or a part of town, but rather on individuals who have a propensity for violent crime.

DO YOU THINK GANGS HAVE A PROPENSITY FOR VIOLENT CRIME ???

"We have ways to classify someone as a career criminal,"
Walton said. "The career criminal we want off the street is the one that has shown that he's not scared to shoot someone, beat someone or cut someone."

GANGS DON'T APPEAR TO BE SHY ABOUT SHOOTING, BEATING OR STABBING ANY ONE

Norman, the third-largest city in the state, had considerably fewer instances of violent crime compared with Oklahoma City and Tulsa. However, it also reported an increase in violent crimes from 184 to 229.

"Norman is the third-largest city in state, but the population difference is quite a bit," Norman police Capt. Leonard Judy said. "So, that is going to have an impact on the overall crime rate."

Judy said Norman is known as a city with low crime.

"We feel it's a combination of the caliber of personnel and the demographics," Judy said. "The type of community, with such an emphasis on academics and technology, and the type of people who live and work and raise their families in Norman doesn't create many problems."

SO IN OTHER WORDS OKLAHOMA CITY INVITES VIOLENT CRIME MAY BE BECAUSE THERE IS SOMETHING TO ATTRACT IT MAYBE PROSTITUTION COULD BE ONE OF THESE. NO THAT CAN'T BE BECAUSE OF THE NO HOOKER ZONES THE VOTING PUBLIC SEES THE AREAS BEING CLEANED UP THEIR JUST HEARING GUN FIRE. MAY BE NO GANG ZONES WILL WORK