Police

The Tulsa Police Department has already released over 100 pages of records to The Frontier that show disciplinary actions for officers who were found to have violated agency rules.

What’s expected to be a “complex” case took a step forward in a Rogers County court with a brief hearing Thursday.

The city pays a private company more than $696,000 a year for the cameras, which read license plates and can track cars.

Oklahoma’s Republican attorney general dismissed a felony assault charge Friday against a police officer who slammed a 71-year-old man to the ground, breaking his neck, during an argument over a traffic ticket.

Mayor Monroe Nichols says the gaps between the police and the communities they serve need to be addressed.

Dennis Larsen will take over for Wendell Franklin at the end of July.

The lawsuit stems from how Lewis was demoted to patrol officer after she refused to bend TPD’s hiring rules, costing her the opportunity to be the department’s first female deputy chief.

The ex-police officer is the first in the nation to face harsher penalties under the 2022 reauthorization of the original act.

Officials say the RTIC will help keep the city safer, though privacy concerns exist.

Instead of taking him to a hospital for evaluation or taking him to jail, an Oklahoma City police officer took Ernest Antwine to no man’s land. And that’s where he died.