Fact check: True, but misleading. It's true that in 2020, Oklahoma had a higher between 2019 and 2020, the increase tracked closely with a nationwide rise in reported violent crime during the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Oklahoma has consistently had a higher crime rate than the national average since 2001. The data shows Oklahoma has had a higher rate of violent crime than California since 2008 for every year except 2019 and the violent crime rate in New York has been lower than Oklahoma's for every year since 2002.
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