Social media has grown into one of the most efficient tools for law enforcement agencies to solve crimes. But bigoted and racist posts from officers’ personal accounts cause people to question how they can equally police all communities. Despite individual officers across the nation making headlines for negative social media posts, officials say overwhelming benefits […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Bad boys
Two years after Tulsa Police Department (TPD) cut ties with a Cops-esque reality show, Oklahoma Highway Patrol is stepping in for its close-up. Oklahoma Department of Public Safety signed an agreement with Big Fish Entertainment that will last through 2020, with an opportunity to extend the deal for a second year. OHP troopers in Tulsa […]
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Standardized testing
Senate minority leader Kay Floyd authored three bills that work together to reform the way the Oklahoma agencies handle sexual assault kits, also known as rape kits. All three bills cleared the Senate and have moved to committees in the House of Representatives. If passed, they would implement a statewide system to track the kits, […]
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Chicken Fried News: Caffeine slinger
A man we assume was already sufficiently over-caffeinated stole an 18-wheeler Pepsi truck late last month. The soda truck thief, Steven Allen Hart, jumped into the truck and drove off with it while workers were unloading product from the back. The truck’s actual driver had to jump out as Hart made his getaway. The man’s […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Crossing boundaries
Oklahoma’s best teachers are heading to Texas, and that’s a real problem. But apparently the Sooner State’s most notorious streakers are headed south of the Red River, too. Readers might not know the name Steven Dale Brazeal, but maybe they would recognize the rear end of the 56-year-old lifetime Oklahoma sex offender. Local news stories […]
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Chicken-Fried News: #FugutiveFound
A jail escapee on the run since August was captured in Tulsa — possibly because of a #FugitiveFriday Facebook post.
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Tower trouble
How about climbing a Tulsa communications tower (and then refusing to come down for six days)? Yeah, that’s a little … extreme. But it’s just what one Tulsa man did recently, as reported by CNN (good to know the national news is picking up positive stories about the state). A 24-year-old gentleman, who reportedly has […]