[jocodi]

Hello all. Can anyone either living in Muskogee (or that has lived there within the last 2 years) tell me why Muskogee has what I think is a high crime rating in City-Data.com - especially for only having approx. 38,000 residents?
Thank you for your input.

[INTN]

I realize this is an old thread, but I'm researching OK cities now and am also interested in this. I really thought Muskogee had a nice virtual magazine website, but when I checked city-data and saw it's crime rate I also wondered why that was.

[joe bob junior]

It might be enlightening to note which types of crime are most common there. Seems like crimes against people, other than murder, may have increased in the last 10 years or so, while crimes against property have actually decreased. I am curious as to the cause for this trend. It appears that the crime rate, overall, is a little higher than the national average. While this is a relatively small town, except for Tulsa, it is also one of the largest in the northeastern Oklahoma area and therefore, a hub community of sorts for the area. It is also close to the Arkansas border and border towns often have high crime rates.

[worriedmommyof3]

I live in Muskogee and can't wait to leave. My kids are not allowed to go outside without an adult and one is 14. It isn't because we live in a bad neighborhood. We actually live in one of the better ones. You might want to research a little further before you move here. Oh and the police never report everything that happens. For example a woman was beat and robbed right by dillards inside the mall but that never made the paper. A woman just got raped in my parents neighborhood and it will likely not be in the paper even though the sheriff went from house to house telling them to keep the doors locked because of this.

[Mattie Jo]

i was sitting in the doctor's office yesterday here in tahlequah, and a man and his mother were waiting as well and said that they lived in muskogee and it is dangerous. the guy talked about a man killing another man in his neighborhood. i never read about it in the paper. i go there to shop now and then, but i would not wish to live there.

[proudvoterofObama]

It's also where that little boy (age 4) was stabbed to death with scissors during a home invasion.

[me_in_the_gee]

I have lived in muskogee for a few years. I am shocked by the amount of violent crime, drive-by shootings, home invasions, and even a recent mall shooting. A high school friend of my wife's was even found murdered a few years ago. It's as bad as Tulsa in my opinion, at least there it wasn't much of a surprise.

[boomermagic]

Gangs have filtered down from Tulsa it's about 45 or 50 miles from Tulsa and most of the bad crime is gang related PERIOD..

[wolfegrl1]

Muskogee is completely infiltrated with drug addicts and gangs. We have lived in Muskogee for 18 years....there is not a week that goes by that we don't hear gunfire. We live on a nice street in a well kept historic neighborhood yet the police often go by with their flashlights at night looking for someone who may be hiding in our yards. We often, especially in the summer, have drug addicts coming to our doors at 1,2,3:am asking for money, a ride, to come in and use our phone. We have been broken into twice, they get into our cars, steal bikes, lawn mowers, syphon our gas. My daughter could not go jogging down the street without being assaulted, sons could never ride their bikes without being strong armed and /or harrassed, threatened. Muskogee, is not a safe or enjoyable place to live. This place has so much potential that will never be realized.

[SouthXSW]

Wow is Muskogee really that bad or are you exaggerating?